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NZ Truth, Issue 131, 21 December 1907, Page 5

The technical point is the impercep-! tible flaw m the information or the law which an astute counsel seizes and throws as a lifeboy to his client without taking heed of facts. When young Bill Danks, son of old Sam Danks, Wellington, brassfounder, J. P., and member of the Hospital Board, was arrested for conduct at Island Bay, or somewhere, liable to create a breach of the pea.ee, the charge-sheet said he had been "using behaviour" instead of "using insulting behaviour," and Tom Wilford laid hold of the circumstance with his customary pertinacity. Seeing a possibility that the police might amend the charge, he said the Beak certainly had unlimited nowers of amendment. . If a man was charged with having wandering cattle, and during the hearing it was discovered that he should have been accused of an unswept chimney, his Worship might have power to amend the charge, but m Danks's case, no offence had been disclosed, and he claimed dismissal. The fortunate youth went free, but the nolice reserved to themselves the right to charge their victim afresh.