INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS. The following items of interest have been gleaned from English papers received by a recent mail:— SELECTION OF JURYMEN. The Lord Chief Justice has explained in the Criminal Appeal Court how a mixed jury should lie selected. The proper way, lie said, was to call for the attendance of a certain number of women, Judging that number by the Percentage of men as compared with women on the register. Then, instead of choosing the names of six men and six women from different boxes, the right way was to put all the names into one box and choose twelve for the jury .indiscriminately, so that it was not possible to predict the exact number of women who would serve on any jury. SWALLOWED HIS FALSE TEETH. An extraordinary fatality has been related to the Walsall coroner. A boatman, hearing cries, found Benjamin Partridge, a Walsall man, struggling in the canal. He rescued the man and applied artificial respiration, without success. Later il was found that the man, in his struggles, had swallowed his false teeth, and it is doubtful at present whether death was due to drowning otto choking. It is not known how Partridge got into the water.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14600, 25 February 1921, Page 7
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