mit mein own interest to talk mit you. Last Saturday Shudge Longenecker
told I looze notings by being in chail, und I vas guilty not, und I
looze notings by dat. But mein healt I looze by der chail, und dat is
somedings; but it will maag me vell und I proof meinselef guildy not at
all. Ein doctor no man can heal und he don'd know the woondt; und I
vant der chudge to tell me vat I am chail in for to-day anyhow?"

Kunze, much excited, sat down amid the laughter of his colleagues.

"I have your matter under consideration," said the court in kindly
tones, and the prisoner subsided.

New tactics were attempted by the defense in the fourth week. It was
broadly hinted by Mr. Forrest that the right sort of men were being
neglected by the bailiffs and a demand was made that all future venires,
instead of being special, should be drawn in the regular way. In support
of this demand he said, among other things:

"We are very much dissatisfied with the class of jurors obtained
thus far; they do not come from the body of the county. We are
getting a class jury from the smallest class in the county. We have
had five Englishmen to one Irishman. According to the school census
of 1884 there were 114,000 Irish persons and only 20,000 English in
this city. If the jurors were taken from the box these
nationalities would come in due proportion. Yesterday there were
seven English and Scotch veniremen. Now we look upon the English as
a class as a most reputable portion of the community, but it so
happens that if there should be a strong prejudice against the
defendants, we might expect to find it right there. I believe the
non-church going community in this county exceeds the church-going
people; and I am satisfied also that the members of the Catholic
church exceed in number all the persons in the so-called
evangelical churches. Yet of those we have had here, twenty to one
were Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists. We do not say that we
should have a Catholic jury, but we claim we should have a jury
drawn from the body of the county by lot. Another thing: The
mechanics, the laboring men, exceed the mercantile class. The
salesman class depends more on the daily papers for intellectual
food than any other class in the community. My experience of
mechanics is that they do less newspaper reading, but devote
themselves to works