What Excuse Indeed!
Perhaps the warm weather was responsible for a deplorable incident in one of our pnlice-courts recently savs “ Pearson’s Weekly.” y 1 It wa, after lunch, and hi. worship well known to be a rather henpecked husband, was feebly trying to resist a tendency to doze. A man w„ brought in and charged with drunkenneai. " Intoxicated, eh ?” repeated the magistrate dreamily. “Yes, sir," the prisoner admitted. There was a pause, then the magistrau came to himself again with a "Are you married?" he asked suddenly to show he was still attending. “ No, nr,” the prisoner replied. The magistrate starep absent-mind-edly into vacancy. “ Then what excus. can you offer ?” he murmured.
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Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 10, 27 October 1911, Page 4
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