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The lady of New Orleans : a novel of the present (c1901)
The lady of New Orleans : a novel of the present (c1901)
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" Come with me, young man, you're wanted," said the officer.
A detective of the police department of New Orleans had taken a young man by the name of Alpha Millyard by the arm and was conducting him to the central police station. It was late one afternoon at a period not many years subsequent to the termination of the civil war.
Alpha Millyard was a young lawyer, having been admitted to the bar as a lawyer in October, 1867, when he was only nineteen years, one month and fifteen days old.
He had practised some at his profession in two or three other states before locating in New Orleans. He was reared in Atlanta, where his mother and his sister, who was younger, still resided.
He had been in New Orleans about fifteen months and, as may well be inferred by his having been admitted to the bar to plead and practise as an attorney and counselor-at-law when only nineteen years of age, where the statutes provided that before being admitted applicants shall be twenty-one years of age, he possessed the acumen necessary to acquire a fair portion of clients in the fifteen months he was there.
However, it must be conceded that he was not extensively acquainted; nor did he possess the faculty of becoming acquainted, only with those who sought his acquaintanceship.
By those who knew him he was regarded as a brilliant lawyer.
The detective lodged Millyard in a special cell; one that contained a bunk. He asked to know the charge against him, but the officer was ignorant, or refused to give the information.
Millyard began then to think of the matter seriously. He could bring to mind no circumstance whatever that would justify his arrest, especially without a warrant.
A detective of the police department of New Orleans had taken a young man by the name of Alpha Millyard by the arm and was conducting him to the central police station. It was late one afternoon at a period not many years subsequent to the termination of the civil war.
Alpha Millyard was a young lawyer, having been admitted to the bar as a lawyer in October, 1867, when he was only nineteen years, one month and fifteen days old.
He had practised some at his profession in two or three other states before locating in New Orleans. He was reared in Atlanta, where his mother and his sister, who was younger, still resided.
He had been in New Orleans about fifteen months and, as may well be inferred by his having been admitted to the bar to plead and practise as an attorney and counselor-at-law when only nineteen years of age, where the statutes provided that before being admitted applicants shall be twenty-one years of age, he possessed the acumen necessary to acquire a fair portion of clients in the fifteen months he was there.
However, it must be conceded that he was not extensively acquainted; nor did he possess the faculty of becoming acquainted, only with those who sought his acquaintanceship.
By those who knew him he was regarded as a brilliant lawyer.
The detective lodged Millyard in a special cell; one that contained a bunk. He asked to know the charge against him, but the officer was ignorant, or refused to give the information.
Millyard began then to think of the matter seriously. He could bring to mind no circumstance whatever that would justify his arrest, especially without a warrant.
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