COURT INTERRUPTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1932, Page 11

COURT INTERRUPTED.

"THUNDERSTORM" NEXT DOOR.

A sudden commotion interrupted proceedings in the Royal Commission on tin hares in Sydney one day recently. Mr. Monahan, K.C., was examining a witness, when there was a clatter and series of thumps that seemed to come from the back of the court room. The judge looked at the orderly in bewilderment, the orderly shouted "Silence," as loudly and sternly as he could, barristers turned round, and men in the front row of the gallery leaned over to see what was happening. However, there was no sign of anything untoward in the court room. ■ "I think it is a thunderstorm, your Honor," remarked Mr. Curtis, K.C., but the reverberations continued for considerably greater length than is customary with a peal of thunder. The orderly hurriedly left the Court; so, of course, did several pressmen. In the adjoining jury room they found two newspaper "copy boys" locked in a fierce struggle. Several chairs were upturned, a table had been shifted some feet, and the room altogether was in disorder. After the boys had been separated, the court room returned to its judicial calm, but the sheriff, Colonel Murphy, informed the boye of the enormity of their offence, and said they were liable to be thrust summarily into prison for contempt of Court.