GIRL DEFIES JUDGE.
REFUSAL TO TAKE THE OATH. When a 15-year-old girl was called at the Old Bailey, London, recently to give evidence against a costermonger, aged 40, who was charged with assault, she refused to take the oath. , The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.): Take the ffiook in your hand and be sworn. The girl shook her head. The Recorder: I order you to take the book. You hear what I say?—Yes. Then take the book and be sworn.—l am not going to say it. The Recorder: You are merely trying to shield this man and you will not he allowed to. You will either give evidence or go to prison and there you will remain. Eventually the girl was taken out by he r pother and two women probation officers to see if she Could be persuaded to alter her mind, but on her return she refused again. The Recorder: Take that young woman away out of my sight. The girl smiled superciliously and left the court with a probation officer and her mother.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 11
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