JUDGE UPSET BY CRYING BABIES
“J. must have all women with babies out of court; they can wait in the ante room or in the corridor,” Judge Crawiord said at the opening of Kdmontou Country Court recently. A few minutes later the cry of a baby was heard, and the judge told a police constable to go and keep order. A little, later another cry penetrated the court, and tho judge said; “Is there no one in this court who knows how to keep a baby quiet? .1 cannot have the business of the court interrupted like this.” A third and fourth time infants were heard, and the judge, throwing down Ids papers on his desk, impatiently exclaimed : “1 must ask the bailiffs to take these women and all their children right outside the court. It is perfectly intolerable. One may as well try to do business in the erginc room of an ocean liner.” Ten minutes later a bailiff returned smilingly, with the information that all the babies were asleep in their mothers’ arms.
Judge Crawford (looking relieved) “ Now perhaps wo can get on.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 1
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