JUSTICE IS SLOW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16681, 13 March 1922, Page 3

JUSTICE IS SLOW.

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WALT MASON.

Augustus Craw fish took a gun and slew his neighbour. Jabez Spry; lie doubtless did it just for fun - I know no other reason why. When man lias nothing sane to do the time hangs heavy on his hands, ami so he kills a triend or two and later in the dork lie stands. And there Augustus took his place and through long weary weeks was tried—it was a celebrated ease and experts rose and testified; and witnesses in drowsy herds blew into court i i have their say. and learned attorneys. who were birds, talked hours and days and weeks away. At last the jurv had a chance and found him guilty of the crime ; Augustus, then, it seemed, might dance on air at some appointed time. But. lo! his learned attorneys saw a misplaced comma in some writ, declared it was n fatal flaw, and pawed the floor and threw a fit. The jurist listened to their hurst of eloquence and took a pen and wrote “The judgment is reversed Augustus must be tried again. ' The second trial, of snail-like speed, became a chestnut and a bore, and then the jury disagreed and Crawfish must be tried once more. This Jabez Spry lias long been dead, long since be closed life's little page; bis slayer vet will die. in bed of ailments incident to age.