SWALLOWED THE BULLET.
Peter Burrowe, the well known member of the Irish Bar, was on one occasion counsel for the prosecution at an important trial for murder. Burrowes had a severe cold, and opened his speech with a box of lozenges in one hand and in the other the small pistol bulloc by which the man had met his death. Between the pauses of his address ho kept supplying himself witn a loxor.iie. But, at last, in the very middle of a high faiutin period he stopped. His legal chest heaved, his eyes seemed starting from his head, and in ;>. voice tremulous with.fright he exclaimed: "Oh!-h-h! Gentlemen, {vsntlomon: I've swallowed the bullet!"— From "xYncedotes of Bench and Bar."
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 8
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SWALLOWED THE BULLET.
Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 8
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