"At the outset," Mx. Bryan con= tinued, "I want the Court to bear in mind that on Februsry 23, in a pending prosecution, the first accused in open court attempted to file a counter criminal action when, as lawyer he knows the proper pro: cedure is that a petition must be filed with the chief clerk court, and the summons issued in the usual and regular way, and 0s he should know that the procedure he did adopt in open court was a most improper one, There only one construction and that is hat he attempted to file that action {intention to intimidate the cote plainant in the case then pending. Being foiled in his attempt to imitate the men in open court, then went outside the court room and. proceeded with ilignant: business of intimidating, ud threatening the complainants in that ease. He goes outside, and, according to the testimony of vie two witnesses he said Arrest there men and take them to the polio station! His conduct in the court room and his subsequent conduct, clearly bears out the truth of the raments of the two witnesses. Me undoubtedly advised his. clients fo do something that was illest, and then he himself stunk into the Unckground, aping that he would not himself get mixed up in the affair'
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