BOY WITNESS WAS "RATTLED."
Told The Court He Had Never Heard
of Deity.
Sunday schools in Hartville, Mo., got a jolt when Earl Braton took the stand to testify in the divorce suit of his step-mother against his father. Earl is 11 years old and Judge Hermann Brumback took an immediate interest in him.
"Do you understand the meaning of an oath?" asked the judge.
"No," said the boy.
"Do you go to Sunday school?"
"Yes, every Sunday."
"Don't they teach you the Bible there?"
"No."
"Didn't you ever hear the pastor, or the superintendent, talk about the Bible or God?"
Earl said he didn't remember.
About that time Judge Brumback decided that the boy had a bad case of "rattles."
"I'll adjourn court 'till 2 o'clock and maybe at that time you'll remember," said the court.
At the afternoon session the lad went through t he ordeal rather in a better way. He lives with his father in Hartville, Mo., while his stepmother lives here.
