TRY IT YOURSELF!
A MODERN SOLOMON. LONDON, November 19. Judge Cluer, of the Shoreditch County Court, in declining to sanction tho payment of a lump sum of £05 as compensation to a youth of 17, who lost the lips of two fingers, said: "Let theguillotine lie brought into Court, and see whether the respondent, is willing to be similarly mutilated for that sum." He ordered the case to be tried, saying that perhaps he ought to multiply tbo Co by 10 and r-.dd 20.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 28 November 1925, Page 9
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TRY IT YOURSELF!
Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 28 November 1925, Page 9
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