Told out of court; personal experiences of members of the Chicago Bench and bar (1909) (14593335270)

Identifier: toldoutofcourtpe00chic (find matches)
Title: Told out of court; personal experiences of members of the Chicago Bench and bar
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Chicago, P.G. Smyth
Subjects: Law
Publisher: Chicago, P.G. Smyth
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, madam, the meaning of the wordchaste ? aOf course I do. When would you consider a person to be chaste? Well, replied the witness emphatically, Id say thata person is chased when hes fired out of his boarding-house. A KIDNAPPED CLIENT.By James V. ODoxxell. To many the matter herein narrated will appear extraor-dinary, amazing, even incredible, something impossible ofoccurrence in the very heart of a large, bustling, moderncity like Chicago. It takes ones mind back to the daysof dubious romance when there was little or no regard forthe rights of the citizen, when a royal lettre de cachetissued at the instance of some despots infamous mistresssufficed to spirit a man away from his home and familyand fling him to pine and die forgotten in some gloomyoubliette of the Bastile. The trouble out of which the singlar circumstancescropped up arose from a serious breach of the command-ment which forbids us to covet our neighbors wife* Thecoveter in this case was a foolish and wealthy old sinner
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JAMES V. ODONNELL Master in chancery high in esteem and strong indemand, owing to unvarying courtesy combined withsterling integrity. A chivalrous soldier of the ancientrace of Tirconnell. Master ODonnell, born in Portland, Me., Septem-ber 14, 1868, came to Chicago 1875, graduated fromNotre Dame Univerity 1889, graduated Chicago Collegeof Law 1890, studied law under Judges Moran andBailey and was admitted to the bar in 1891; with JudgeGibbons, now of the Circuit Court, arid Judge Kavanagh,now of the Superior Court, became member of the firmof Gibbons, Kavanagh & ODonnell; served as firstlieutenant in the 7th Illinois Volunteers during theSpanish-American war; is member of the Illinois andChicago Bar Associations and the Chicago AthleticAssociation; was married in 1899, to Miss Agnes Lynch,they have three children. TOLD OUT OF COURT 121 with one leg in the grave and the other in a flourishingdistillery, a modern dragon with the financial resourcesof a Croesus and the moral scruples