MR LUNDON'S TROUBLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15701, 1 March 1913, Page 4

MR LUNDON'S TROUBLES.

HEATED DEBATE WITH A' CORONER. (From Oub Own Corbespondext.) AUCKLAND, February 28. A heated debate took place at the inquest into ..the circumstances surrounding the death of Minotaur Caroline Bush today between the Coroner (Mr T. Gresham) i-and Mr J. R. Lundon, representing , Mrs >Skelkm who has already been committed for trial on a charge of performing an operation which is alleged to have caused the girl's death. Mr Lundon had not been in the court during the whole of the examination .of a witness, and on his return he asked to be allowed to read the depositions as far! as they had been taken.

Tho Coroner replied, that- he 'could hear them when they were being read over at the conclusion of the examination of .the witness. i

' Mr Lundon: Thank you for your courtesy. . .

The Coroner: What was that, Mr Lundoii ? • ■ ■~..■

Mr Lundon:' I thanked you for 'your courtesy, sir. The Coroner: I have extended no courtesy to you. Mr Lundon: J. know that, and I am thanking you for it. The Coroner: Mr Lundon, you are here by permission, and if you are impudent I shall have you removed. Did you mean what you have just said for impudence? ; Mr London: Your Honor—— . The Coroner: Your Worship, please. Mr Lundon: Your Worship, I merely asked you to extend to me the ordinary courtesy due to. me. The Coroner: You can hear the depositions when I read them afterwards to the jury. That is sufficient. Mr Lundon: No, sir, it is not sufficient. I have to cross-examine on those depositions. The Coroner: I am not going to let you see them now. Mr Lundon: Then don't blame me if I keep you here for a few hours. The Coroner (to the recording clerk): 'Take that statement down. Mr Lundon: Take the whole lot down and not half of it. The Coroner instructed the clerk to add the words " after the Coroner had refused Mr Lundon's request for a perusal of tho depositions." Later in the proceedings a . debate threatened between Mr Lundon- and the chief detective. The Coroner requested Mr Eundon to restrain himself. • Mr Lundon: Eestrain myself?- Certainly, sir, I always..restrain myself. . The Coroner :• No, Mr Lundon, you are noticeable for failing to restrain yourself. Mr Lundon: lam pleased to hear that I am noticeable. The Coroner: You are noticeable for your improper conduct in any court wherever vera go. '- Mr Lundon: Oh, my dear sir! What court have you ever been in where I have faiied to restrain myself? The Coroner did not make any reply, and no further discussion resulted.