Project Gutenberg 2015-04-15 Public domain in the USA. 70 Baker, George M. (George Melville) 1832 1890 Baker, George Melville Baker, G. M. (George Melville) Gentlemen of the Jury: A Farce Produced by David Edwards, Donalies and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Gentlemen of the Jury: A Farce" by George M. Baker is a comedic play written in the early 1870s. This farce revolves around the absurd deliberations of a jury tasked with reaching a verdict in a case concerning the defendant, Peleg Popgun, accused of attempting to defraud tax authorities through the suspicious activities in his country store. The book humorously explores the quirks and personalities of the jurors, highlighting their comedic exchanges and misunderstandings as they try to navigate their responsibilities. The play opens in a jury room where jurors with eccentric traits engage in a chaotic yet humorous debate over Popgun's guilt or innocence. As deliberations ensue, the characters alternate between earnest discussion and absurd antics, with each juror presenting comically rationalized arguments for their votes of “guilty” or “not guilty.” Amidst the confusion, a character seeks to demonstrate the true nature of the evidence – gunpowder – with a shocking practical test that leads to panic in the room. Ultimately, the jurors reach a verdict through a mixture of farcical reasoning and misunderstandings, culminating in a twist that satirizes both the legal process and human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Comedies American drama -- 19th century Jury -- Drama PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 103869 103862 2024-09-20T10:23:36.971842 2023-09-21T07:06:19.585500 text/html text/html 103269 2015-04-14T19:52:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 236543 2015-04-14T19:52:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 255617 2024-09-20T10:23:41.651841 application/epub+zip 254014 2024-09-20T10:23:38.381865 application/epub+zip 97347 2024-09-20T10:23:37.624855 application/epub+zip 318000 2024-09-20T10:23:44.040815 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277171 2024-09-20T10:23:41.030844 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120489 2022-09-22T06:26:26.980740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 62452 62252 2024-09-20T10:23:36.320882 2023-09-21T07:06:18.776470 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 62607 2015-04-14T19:52:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 21538 2015-04-14T19:52:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18972 2024-09-20T10:23:44.190856 application/rdf+xml 18827 2024-09-20T10:23:37.717854 image/jpeg 2980 2024-09-20T10:23:37.669919 image/jpeg 239270 2024-09-20T10:23:37.014836 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia