A case of theft was being tried, and a wizen-faced little man, who was sup-1 posed to have seen all that had hap pened, was in the witness dox. After taking tho oath he turned and faced the defending counsel. •‘You say the fence is ten feet high,” said the latter. “And that you were standing on the ground—not mounted on a ladder or a box or anything?” “That is correct,” replied the wit“Ah,” went on defending counsel, a note of triumph in his voice, ‘ * then perhaps you can explain how you, a man little more than five feet in height, could see over a - fence ten feet high | and- watch the.prisoner’s actions?” The witness stared back defiantly at the defending counsel. “There’s a hole in that fence,” he replied calmly.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 271, 4 November 1940, Page 9
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