STRANGE DIVORCE
CANARY AS WITNESS. A canary was the chief witness in a divorce suit brought before the civil court at Munich by a husband. The husband said that his wife beat him. but the wife vehemently denied the charge. The husband thereupon told the puzzled judge that, the only witness he nnula produce, and a decisive one, v.as the domestic canary. “The canary,” he. said, “knew every time my wife was going to boat mo, and when b’.-o came near me it flew frantically •,’bcut its cage trying to get out to i iy help.” The canary was brought into court, and the judge called upon the wife to approach her husband and protend to strike him. Upon .her doing so the canary became wild with excitement, flying' against the bars of its cage with such violence that it. lost a good half of its plumage, amd after its frantic efforts hung at last exhausted from the wires. The wife was so affected by trie evidence of the feathered witness that she broke i nto tears and confe. -'d her faults.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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182STRANGE DIVORCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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