“MORNING ABSOLUTIONS”
WITNESS MEANT HIS WASH AMUSEMENT IN COURT (From Our Resident Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Instead of remaining in the safe and simple shallows of verbal expression many witnesses in court venture into precarious depths of ponderousness, and are frequently found floundering. One such to-day told the magistrate that at 6.30 every morning he performed his absolutions. The magistrate had not properly recovered from the shock of this, nor the court gallery settled to seriousness again, when the witness said that complainant in the case was in a bad state of “hystericalism.”
This was too much for the magistrate, and counsel intervened and suggested more simple and direct methods of expression. This was adopted with more satisfactory results.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 7
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