“The debtor is on fire,” whispered a waiting litigant in the Court to the senior-sergeant, of police, who was sitting at the lawyers’ table (states the Dannevirko News). Sure enough he was, for smoke was issuing from a sidepocket When the debtor entered the witness-box he had evidently nlaced a lighted pipe in his pocket ana was serenely replying to examining counsel oblivious of the possible danger to his person and clothing. The business of the Court was suspended for a few seconds while the police officer assisted tho man to “extinguish the incipient blaze.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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