PREVENTING PERJURY.
In a case before a Paris court, in which a popular actress had to appear as witness, the judge seems to have shown some considerable diffidence about asking the lady, aa he was in duty bound to do, what was her age. Evidently he considered that such a question, put to such a witness, would be a direct incitement to perjury. The way in which he got out of the difficulty was ingenious, although decidedly irregular. He aaked her her age before she was sworn. " How old are you, madam V he &aid. After a little hesitation the lady owned to twenty-nine years of age. " And now that you have told the court your age," continued the gallanb judge, "you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
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Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 3
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135PREVENTING PERJURY. Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 3
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