SWALLOWED THE EVIDENCE.
A remarkable scene look place in a magistrate's room at Brive, in the Correze. A newspaper editor called in as a witness apropos of a dispute about a letter published in his newspaper, rather than betray the professional secret, swallowed the envelope before the magistrate's eyes, and so put an end to all possibility' of procedure on this specific count. The magistrate is still undecided on what charge he can pursue the author of this unusual act, but the editor says that lie would always prefer a severe sentence to divulging secrets entrusted to him as an editor. The letter was intended for the secretary of the Socialist committee of the town, but through some cause or other it apeared in the columns of the Reveil de Correze. Nettled by this indiscretion, the secretary of the Socialists committee asked the magistracy to order an investigation with a view to prosecuting the author of -the misdelivery of the letter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14888, 13 January 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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