COMEDY IN COURT.
A PRISONER GETS AWAY. Sentenced at Lyons to three months' imprisonment for theft, a prisoner slipped away into a side corrider of the court. Meeting a policeman on duty, the fugitive coolly said to him, "I fear I have lost my way. Could you show me the way out ?" " Open the first door on the left, and you will find the stairs," replied the uniformed man. In his hurry to clear out the sentenced man made a mistake and opened a door on the right. " No, no, said the polito policeman, laughingly; "that leads to the court prison." The fugitive laughed, too, and walked out by the right door—that is to say, the left door. And so he got; away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19496, 27 November 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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