The less of Two Evils.
A celebrated Birmingham lawyer was prosecuting in a case against a burglar. The 'burglar s wife was in the witness-box, and the lawyer was conducting a vigorous crossexamination. > "I understand, madam," eaid he, reaching a point where he felt he was bound to score heavily, "that you are the wife of this man?" "Yes." "You knew he was a burglai when you married him — a man who prowls about at dead of night robbing respectable people of their hard-earned savings?" "I did," sighed the woman. "How did you come to contract a marliage with such a man?" "Well, sir," paid the witness sorrowfully, "I was getting old and plain, and had to choose between a lawyer and a burglar, and " But the witness was ordered to stand clow n.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2499, 5 February 1902, Page 72
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134The less of Two Evils. Otago Witness, Issue 2499, 5 February 1902, Page 72
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