Project Gutenberg 2015-04-15 Public domain in the USA. 96 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.) Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Comedy plays American drama -- 19th century Jury -- Drama PS Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 104069 2025-07-19T12:58:17.167778 text/html 82883 2024-10-24T17:16:20 text/html 255711 2025-07-19T12:58:21.413735 application/epub+zip 254018 2025-07-19T12:58:18.499730 application/epub+zip 97351 2025-07-19T12:58:17.795745 application/epub+zip 317882 2025-07-19T12:58:23.567754 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277165 2025-07-19T12:58:20.840754 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120489 2022-09-22T06:26:26.980740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 62298 2025-07-19T12:58:16.689733 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 42338 2024-10-24T17:16:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17602 2025-07-19T12:58:23.706728 application/rdf+xml 18827 2025-07-19T12:58:17.892749 image/jpeg 2980 2025-07-19T12:58:17.842751 image/jpeg 239326 2025-07-19T12:58:17.211797 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia