WITNESS LED OUT.
SUPREME COURT INCIDENT.
An unexpected episode marked a case heard before Mr. Justice Herdman, in the Supreme Court yesterday. A witness for the defence, when in the box, indulged in rambling statements, and His Honor remarked that he could not make sense of what the man was saying. The Crown Solicitor ventured the opinion that the witness had been drinking. Counsel for the defence said , the witness was a foreigner, and probably did not understand. At this stage the foreman of the jury volunteered the remark that he could " smell him from here." Counsel for the defence desisted from further examination of the witness, who, however, continued to ramble on, apparently in regard to where he was to get- his expenses. His Honor told the man to keep quiet, and the Court orderly took him gently by the hand, and conducted him to the door of the Court, As he left, the' dismissed witness still seemed anxious to talk. At the door a constable took charge of him and led him downstairs into the fresh air.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18549, 6 November 1923, Page 10
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