CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS.
A COURT INCIDENT,
(Received August 27, 8 p.m.) Melbourne, August 27. A Russian, immigrant who was a witness in a District Court case-,-when asked whether he would agree to an adjournment, replied "I am going to tho consumption sanatorium to-morrow." Enquiry showed that ho was an incurable consumptive. The Bench ordered the destruction of the Bible which the witness had kissed. A solicitor remarked that he had met three consumptive witnesses in threo weeks, all of them immigrants.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13506, 28 August 1912, Page 5
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80CONSUMPTIVE IMMIGRANTS. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13506, 28 August 1912, Page 5
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