“LOWESTOFT?"
PRISONER ASSISTS IN BIGAMS CASE. In one of his amusing cartoonß H. M. Bateman, the well-known “Punch’ : cartoonist, depicts the effect of a criminal .who admitted everything. The whole court, from the judge in his red gown, to the humble orderly, were throun into a state of consternation. And it wa» as if a bomh&hell had landed amongst the legal fraternity.
It is well-known that it ia against all precedent for a prisoner to speak from the dock unless addressed when asked to plead. During the course of a "bigamy case in the Supreme Court yesterday, however, all convention was flouted by the prisoner. Evidence was being given by a detective. and for the moment he could not recall the name of an English town, where relating of the prisoner were said to reside. The witness hesitated, . deep in thought. “Lowestoft?” unexpectedly volunteered the prisoner from the dock. This was correct. Though the effect on the court by this unusual announcement did not occasion ihe consternation that did the subject of Mr Bateman's cartoon, the effect was none the Jess surprising for all that.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 6
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