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Bad Spelling Frees Horse Thieves

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 47.

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Bad Spelling Frees Horse Thieves

BAD spelling has now let loose two horse thieves on California society. The intelligent jury spelled "defendants" "defendances," and thereupon the thieves appealed the case, and gained it. Juries are solemnly required not to know anything, and then if they cannot write good English, their verdicts are thrown out of court. If we keep on, after awhile nothing less than horse-stealing will be respectable.—S. F. Christian Advocate.