A POLICEMAN'S STRUGGLE
GETTING A WITNESS' NAME
A BEWILDERED YOUNG MAN
Proceedings in the By-law Court in Wellington wejo held up temporarily on Tuesday afternoon, owing to the apparent inability of a witness to distinguish between his name and his initials
After the customary oath had been taken, Senior-Sergeant Scott asked the witness to givo his full name. The young man gave the initials of his Christian names, whereupon tho senior-sergeant, asked hnri if that was what he was christened. The witness looked blankly round tho room, and Mr Scott, again asked him for tho full name. Orice moro the initials were used, and a smile lit up every face in the courtroom Uoturrung to tho fray once more. Mr. Scott put the question very cloarlv and slowly and at tho same time said that witnesses must giv their full names and not their initials A look of under standing dawned upon the young man's countenance arid to the intense and evi dent relief of the senior-sergeant he an flounced that his names were Alan George.
Thoro was a third initial which was mentioned but which was omitted when the names were given Having elicihd the main part of the information. Mr. Scott did not press tho obviously embarrassed young man for the other namt>
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 14
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215A POLICEMAN'S STRUGGLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 14
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