Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . ven of the panelanswered, and the balance was supplied. Court went on inits usual way until noon, the jury sitting in the box all thewhile with nothing to do. The old-timers sat like Patienceon a monument. They thought they were fixed for a fiveweeks term. They had hung their hats and coats up on thehooks around the court house and were ready to delve into themysteries of any case that might come before them. Just before adjourning time at noon Judge Craven said :Mr. Sheriff, will you please hand me the acts of the lastLegislat
Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . ven of the panelanswered, and the balance was supplied. Court went on inits usual way until noon, the jury sitting in the box all thewhile with nothing to do. The old-timers sat like Patienceon a monument. They thought they were fixed for a fiveweeks term. They had hung their hats and coats up on thehooks around the court house and were ready to delve into themysteries of any case that might come before them. Just before adjourning time at noon Judge Craven said :Mr. Sheriff, will you please hand me the acts of the lastLegislature ? Taking the book he deliberately turned through 416 HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY, INDIANA. it until he came to the act in point. He read it very slowly,emphasizing where it said that a person should only be eligi-ble to sit on a jury one term in any one year. Turning,facing the jury, he said : Gentlemen of thejurj-, you have heard the reading ofthe law. I do not know what the object of the Legislaturewas in passing such an act, unless it was for the purpose of. V St^c THE OLD COURT HOUSE. disposing of infernal dead beats that lay around the courthouses throughout the State of Indiana for the purpose of get-ting on the jury. I do not know that any of the^presentjuryare of this class ; I hope they are not ; but we will have yousworn to answer questions. Swear the jury, Mr. Clerk. By this time great drops of sweat were rolling off some ofthe jury. As the proper questions were propounded to themthey took their hats and coats from the hooks and dropped HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY, INDIANA. 417 out one at a time until the jury-box was cleaned out. Thisstopped the professional juryman business in Madison is one of the best laws on our statute books. F. T. LUSE AND HIS MAGIC LANTERN. Among the many good fellows who have lived in Aladisoncounty, none will be longer remembered than Fleming T. came here in the fall of 1866, and purchased the AndersonStandard, and publish
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