FALSE OATHS.
TO THE EDITOB.
Sib, —It is very painful to anyone attendiDg the courts to listen to what they well know must be rank perjury from one side or the other of those giving evidence. lam sure Mr Carew, who is a most patient, courteous, and, I believe, just magistrate, must find it very difficult to decide a case on its merits. On the one hand he sees truthful faces, who carry conviction that they are speaking the truth; on tha other hand ho Bees those giving evidence who have the stamp of Ananias on their brow —who, when, pinned to any statement by cross-examination, hesitate, give a short cough, and try to avoid the questions asked. How is it possible for Mr Carew, or any other hnman being, to decide a case fairly when the Ananiases are in the majority? Merely kissing the Bible evidently does not stop false swearing. A few more convictions for perjury would, in my estimation, stop to a great extent false oaths.—l am, &o , July 18; Justice.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8861, 19 July 1890, Page 4
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