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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 10

In 1923, a motor-truck knocked a prambulator over, and the child in it fell out. Recent the child, now a boy of five, was the central figure in a ease in the New York Police Court, when the mother claimed £lO,OOO as compensation for the dumbness of the child, which she alleged, was due to the accident. Seven doctors examined the boy, and used all the tests known to make him talk, but they tried in vain. Two playmates testified that they had heard him speak, so the judge tried for three-quarters of an hour to make him talk, but he, too. failed. Then a court attendant took charge of the boy, who by signs, informed him that one of the playmate witnesses had pinched him. The attendant took him apart and asked him which of the two it was. “He did,” said the boy, pointing, and then lapsed into silence. When they came into Court again, the man on the bench described the case as “The most outrageous example of attempted fraud I have ever seen.” and committed the mother to prison for perjury.