The long arm of the law proved too long for Law Professor James A. Casner when he appeared at the Newton Court House to defend a graduate student arraigned for driving offenses.
Although they had planned to spend the evening of Friday, March 13, at a Wellesley dance, law student Burton K. Adelman and friend found themselves in the Newton jail house.
In response to their frantic appeals, Professor Casner good-naturedly agreed to appear in their defense. But even the best legal obscurantism and phraseological browbeating had no effect on the hard-headed magistrate of Newton. With a "Hey, you, enough of that!" from the Sergeant-at-Arms, Professor Casner was forced to let the law take its course. Adelman and co-defendant were fined twice the usual amount.
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