A GOOD DEFENCE.

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1922, Page 5

A GOOD DEFENCE.

FOR A FRENCHMAN. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, June 29. At the quarter sessions, a young Frenchman, charged with stealing a suitcase containing lady’s clothing, passionately pleaded with the judge and jury to forget that they were Britishers and try and sec with the eyes of Frenchmen. In his country, he said it was nothing for a young man to be chased by gendarmes, because he climbed perhaps to a window of his lady to say good-night. The Frenchman’s mind worked quite differently from the English. It was quite true he took the articles but he did so because he loved the lady, and took them to prevent her going out with any other man. Judge Scholes told the jury that despite the strangeness of the defence it was entirely worthy of consideration. The jury acquitted fhe accused.