defence--as, for example, one who is of the same religion,
nationality or even name as the defendant. The writer once
tried a case where the defendant was a Hebrew named Bauman,
charged with perjury. Mr. Abraham Levy was the counsel for
the defendant. Having left an associate to select the jury
the writer returned to the courtroom to find that his friend
had chosen for foreman a Hebrew named Abraham Levy. Needless
to say, a disagreement of the jury was the almost inevitable
result. The same lawyer not many years ago defended a client
named Abraham Levy. In like manner he managed to get an
Abraham Levy on the jury, and on that occasion succeeded in
getting his client off scot-free.

No method is too far-fetched to be made use of on the chance
of "catching" some stray talesman. In a case defended by
Ambrose Hal. Purdy, where the deceased had been wantonly
stabbed to death by a blood-thirsty Italian shortly after the
assassination of President McKinley, the defence was
interposed that a quarrel had arisen between the two men owing
to the fact that the deceased had loudly proclaimed
anarchistic doctrines and openly gloried in the death of the
President, that the defendant had expostulated with him,
whereupon the deceased had violently attacked the prisoner,
who had killed him in self-defence.

The whole thing was so thin as to deceive nobody, but Mr.
Purdy, as each talesman took the witness-chair to be examined
on the voir dire, solemnly asked each one:

"Pardon me for asking such a question at this time--it is only