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Offenders And Defenders

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
March
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New Orleans? Picafuriè gives the following amusing account of the cxamination of two Juvenile Jemmy Twitchers, befqre Recorder Gonares. They rejoiced in the names of James Johnson and Joseph Browh, and were accused of abstracting cakes from a coflee stand in the markët. 'W'hat do you say to this charge?' says the recorder to them. 'Vy, ve says not guilty, of cour'se,' said Johnson, 'no one aint bound to crimínate himself.' cYes, but you were seen taking the bread by the negro,' said the recorder. 'A negroaint nowitnessagainsta white boy, no how you can fix it,' said Brown. 'And, besides,' said Johnson, 'cakes aint bread no rrïore than fleás aint lobsters - so there can't be no indictment forstealing it.' Recorder - 'But another person than the negro saw you take the cakes. The Commissar'y himself saw you do it.' Brown - 'Vel, vot of it; it warnt no burglary because it was done in daylight, and there warnt no lock broken.' Johnson - 'Yes, and I sliould like to ask the gem'an as how he knows, s'pose we did take them, but what wc meant to pay for them. It is not every onc that takes things on credit as can be prosecuted for larceny - not by a longshot.' Recorder - "Bothof you secm to have no' inconsiderable experience, ybung as you are, in the rules of court and criminal practice. Have you ever -been -up before a court before'?' Johnson - 'We are not bound to answer that 'ere question, 'cause our 'krackters haint been impeached.' Brown - (aside to Johnson,) -Right, Jim, mum's the word about 'cracktcr - guess we aint quite so green as he takes us to be.' 'Recorder- 'Wel I, I shall send both of you to tho work-house for thirty days; you are evidently too idle, too vicious, ai;d í may add, too cunning to go at la rge.' Johnson - 'We calis for a trial by jury, your honor, and a speedy trial at that. - The constituí on guaranteesMt to every 'Mericain citizen, and we ai ut rt goin to be chizzled out of it, no how.' Johnson, (as the oiTvcertook them out ofcoTirt,) 'Veil, t hen ï'm Ijilowed if wc don't get out a happy corpy.' The unanimous opinión of all the court who witnessed this 'forensic' display was that Masters Johnson 6c Brown are a most promising pair of youths, and most probably destined, in (he course of human events to add to the produclive industrv of State by a reí'idenceof n frxedterm in the Baton Rouge.ít Í3 said tliere are tu en ty persotVs íñjNféw York worlh n tbc ;iLrrgnie sevcnty-fivo nilüuns of dolljrs. Wlyit oti immensity of jood thcsc pcople cou!d do if Üicy cliosc.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News