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Challenged In Court

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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What looked at the time like a close cali for Ingersoll occurred six or seven years ago in New York, when he and the gifted Daniel Dougherty were arrayed against each other in a divorce case before Judge Barrett. Dougherty was Eor the husband. He closed his case in this way : "Through all this dreadful case, this struggle for what should be to her mauy thousand times dearer than life, has a veil inantled that beautiful face? Has one tear rolled down those cheeks? Has there been a single blush on that face? Not a tear ! Not a blush !" He shook his fist at Ingersoll as he said this. "Do you state that as a f act?" asked the infidel. "Yes." "Then I teil yon it is untrue. " "Consider yourself challenged," shouted the Philadelphian. "Let us have uo interruptions, " said Judge Barrett, showing great anxiety and displeasttre. "Well, then, he must not look at me when he says untruths, " said Ingersoll, shaking all ovr with rage. Sensation in the courtroom. Mr. Dougherty explained that he had challenged Ingersoll in a purely Piekwickian sense, and wheu the two lawyers left

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News