The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, September 21, 1905 'Outwitted the Court' - - - Sometimes it occurs that lawyers, with all their shrewdness, get outwitted by persons who are not lawyers -- and sometimes they outwit. Here is a case that happened in Chariton. A life insurance policy had been left to heirs but was not exempt from debts of deceased. The court ordered a certain lady, having the money in custody, to pay a specified amount over, but when she came into court her plea was that she had locked as she thought, the money safely in her bosom and lost it. No one accuses any of the attorneys interestd of having the combination to her safe -- not even judge Eichelberger in his goodness of heart attempted to break the lock and Lucas County's portly sheriff revolted at the mere thought, but what was to be done? She stoutly alleged that her till had been tapped -- but none dare open to see. If it was not as she represented then it was a clear case of contempt for disobeying the court's order, otherwise a deliberate perjury. While a portion of Charit! on's bar was evolving plans to induce her to unbosom, she slipped from this jurisdiction and took her safe with her and the whole court machinery is left to screak: "Judges and Jurors have their place -- And lawyers, too, before the bar -- But no court this side the throne of grace Dare spring that door ajar." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 3, 2004 [email protected] *This is hilarious -- sure would like to know HER name.