ONE FOR HIS NOB.
T:;f. lawyer had been badgering the wit tiers br ■.,<:r..e time, and finally asked " Was any member of your family 'ever hanged?" " Yos, sir." ".Mi. ah! I thought as much. Now, sir. v.iio v.a3 it?" -aiyself." " Y'.urseK 1 Po yon mean to say you ha\ e i a:r '-..-jigcd, and are alive to tell it ?" " Y-:.s. : : ir." " Coijh;. row, ro trifling. Tell the jury xhrt' yon were hanged for, and bow you happen to be alive to day." Wc!!, sir, a man was killed, and I was respite! of h.ivin? committed the crime A mob teok flie out, put a rope round my reck, ar.d just hauled me up to the limb of a tree v. hen some one in the crowd shonted that the murdered man was a certain lawyer. They couldn't cut me down quick enough I 1 was tilled up with the best whisky the place afforded, and given a banquet as the greatest public benefactor in the history oi Ifaetown." ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1901, Page 2
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168ONE FOR HIS NOB. Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1901, Page 2
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