Questioned by counsel at Middlesex Sessions as to what he found on going to : a house, a jobbing gardener, with a polite bow, replied, "I'm very much afraid, sir, it had been disarranged by thieves." (Laughter.) Counsel: "Disarranged! You need uot be so polite when referring to burglars. I understand the place was ransacked from top to bottom?"—"I believe it was, sir." "Can't you say what happened?"—" Well, sir, 1 think somebody must have been to tho house." (Laughter.) Counsel: "Speak out. There is not much chance of shocking a court of justice. You mean that tho house was turned \ipside down by burglars?" The witness replied that he was afraid that .WW e°* .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 7
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