Excerpt from The Creighton Chronicle, Vol. 4: February 20, 1913 Some days after that the President of the Douglas County Bar Association invited me to join him in attendance at a ses sion in the Court of Criminal Appeals, and we went there, spending the bulk of the forenoon. That session was held in the largest of these court rooms. It appears that the barristers and the solicitors and their clerks and the others having busi ness before the court and with the court, are privileged to occupy those benches, but the general public who have no such special business have a little gallery that extends over the space occupied by those benches, and they may come in there. Mr. Hall and myself, through the kindness of a solicitor, were invited to occupy places on these benches that I have described, and from that point we witnessed the proceedings of that court. The judges wore very striking and, perhaps I might say, magnifi cent robes. They are not like the robes that are worn by the judges of our Supreme Court. In this court the judges wore a sort of a scarlet robe trimmed with ermine. Viewed from the front, I cannot say that the wigs worn by the judges of the court were unbecoming or detracted anything from the dignitybf their appearance. I don't know how they looked from the rear, but we did have a View of the rear of the barristers who sat in the benches in front of us, and well, whatever is customary in any country is right in that country, but I must say that the barrister's wig from its back View is not of a character to impress one as adding any particular dignity to the gentleman's appearance. The barristers wore black robes, and the ordinary barristers and King's Counsel could be distinguished by their robes. I believe the King's Counsel wears silk and the others a different kind of fabric. The wig seems to be a sort of mechanical contrivance of some gray material, thoroughly curled and a good deal like the wool of an Astrakhan goat. In the rear it doesn't come down as far as the natural hair - that is as a solid wig. There is a thin layer of this coarse gray hair that comes down from about the level of the ear to the neck, and outside of that are a number of formal mechanical curls. They are all made, I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.