"LYING A VIRTUE."
" 1 si'Fi'OSK .you have been brought up to believe that lying is a virtue," said Mr. Fordham, at the West London Police Court, to a Herman, charged on remand with giving false particulars when registering as an alien. In discharging prisoner, Mr. Fordham said he was taking into consideration the tad that the man was not a dangerous alien, and also the fact that he came from a barbarous people, " who seem to think it no disgrace, but rather a virtue, to lie, and ad in a manner which is condemned by all civil-ite-d people. If you had come from a civilised country," added the magistrate, '' instead of a barbarous country, I should have thought your fault was greater; but I suppose sou. have been brought up to believe that lying is a virtue." Tho man's offence was that he declared himself to be living with his wife at Chiswick, whereas the woman he is living with is not his wife.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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