BLACK CAT IN COURT.
NO LUCK FOR PRISONER. Some peoplo say that black sats are lucky, but are they? asks a Wellington newspaper. In the Suprome Court in Wellington on Wednesday, when Mr. Justice MacGrogor was sentencing prisoners, a big black cat walked quite unconcernedly out from nowhore, and paced up and down tho ledge which runs around tjie Court some feet above the jury bos, A prisoner who stood in the dock suddenly noticed the cat, and gazed at it while his counsel made a plea for probation. Of what was the unfortunate man in tho dock thinking ? Are, black cats lucky, perhaps, and was the appearance of tho creature a good omen in his time of stress? If ho thought that black cats wore lucky, however, ho was sadly mistaken, for His Honor refused to grant probation, and inflicted a lengthy term of imprisonment, instead. Just, as tho prisoner was being led from tho dock to the cells ho|ow he took one last, lingering look at the cat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 14
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