MOTH IN HIS HEAD.
JURYMAN'S PREDICAMENT.
A HAMILTON INCIDENT.
[BY ielegbaph.—own CORRESPONDENT.
Hamilton. Thursday. When the first jury was empanelled at the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Gillies, Crown Prosecutor, said one of the jurymen had approached him during the luncheon interval stating that he was trcubled with a moth in his head. Counsel suggested that it was for His Honor to fay whether a man with a buzzing insect in his head should sit on the jury.
The juryman, being called forward, said the moth had just been taken out of bis car by a doctor. He was relieved from duty till ten o'clock next morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15550, 6 March 1914, Page 7
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