A Way With Him.

Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 17313, 28 December 1927, Page 4

A Way With Him.

Senior Sergeant .Mac Lean has a clever way of dealing with children in the court, and Ins ability to put the most nervous witness at his ease was particularly noticeable in a case heard in the Gisborne Police Court the other .afternoon, when evidence was given by a small* boy who entered the box with a frightened look on his lace (says the Herald). "You have never been in the court before?"' asked the Senior Sergeant. The boy replied that he had not. "Well," continued the Senior Sergeant, "that gentleman is the magistrate, whom you must respect; that is his clerk, who will take down what you say; I am your burly policeman, and tbese gentlemen over here are the reporters, but your name won't appear in tbe paper. Now, you will promise that everything yon say will be nothing but the truth?'' * The frightened look left the boy's face immediately, and he gave his evidence clearly and concisely, without any further trace of nervousness. Bicycle Thieves. The mentality of the bicycle thief passes comprehension (remarks the Southland Times). Taking a stroll recenty along a little-used path in Thomson's Hush, an Invercargill resident caugth a glint of metal in some thick undergrowth. Investigation revealed a bicycle, which had apparenty been lying there for several weeks, so that although evidently nearly new when left there, it was now badly rusted. On the find being reported to the police the owner was speedily found, but the question is, what was the thief's object in leaving it there.

it was in Wolverhampton. "[ was only once in a Police Court." said -Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, to a Hastings audience recenty, states the Hawke's Bay Herald. "I was charged with clouting a man on the head for calling me a liar and putting it to the meeting. I was fined £2 and costs, and my grateful constituents took" up a penny collection to pay the fine. It not only paid the fine!! but provided me with a handsome gold watch." "Was that at Wolverhampton?'' asked a voice from the audience. "Yes. at Wolverhampton,," answered Mr. Amerv. to the obvious satisfaction