"But that is not the best part of it.

You see, the 'ringer' says he was to get two hundred dollars per month for each month of Dough's sentence which he served.

The prison authorities have refused to keep him any longer, and now he is suing them for damages, and is trying to get a writ of mandamus to compel them to take him back and let him serve out the rest of the sentence!" Probably the most successful instance on record of making use of a dummy occurred in the early stages of the now famous Morse-Dodge divorce tangle.

Dodge had been the first husband of Mrs.Morse, and from him she had secured a divorce.

A proceeding to effect the annulment of her second marriage had been begun on the ground that Dodge had never been legally served with the papers in the original divorce case--in other words, to establish the fact that she was still, in spite of her marriage to Morse, the wife of Dodge.