PENITENT LOOK, BUT JAUNTY STEP
THE JUROR AND THE JUDGE. A well-known business man failed to respond when his name was read out from the Grand Jury list at the. Supreme Court yesterday morning. An offices of the law was dispatched to hunt up the missing juror, and in due course presented him. ■ i "You admit that you were served?" asked his Honour.^ ,"Yes," was the reply; "but unfortunately 1 was served at my private house, and I forgot all about the matter ns I did not enter the engagement up in my diary. I did not absent myself intentionally." "You are excused," remarked his Honour, "but you- must understand this: that by failing to attend you have cast the duty on some one else." . . The juror looked duly penitent, but left: the Court with a suspiciously light and jaunty step. . v
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1041, 2 February 1911, Page 4
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