HE FELL IN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 833, 22 February 1906, Page 25

HE FELL IN.

The London L.V. Gazette relates how ar- offender who, when before the Magistiate, proved just a little bit too smart for himself, and says that the fierce joy of scoring off a hostile witness has its traps even for the practised barrister, but he rarely jumps into them quite so recklessly as .the fowl-stealer who defended himself at Kingston. He denied not merely the fowl-stealing, but even having been near the fowls at all. “You say you saw me the r e?” he asked the prosecutor. “Yes, I did.” “Then, who was with me?” “I only saw you.” “Did you see a dog with me?” “No, I cannot say that I did.” “Well, then,” said the prisoner,

with a knock-down air, “I had a dog with me.” After that he can hardly have been surprised to receive one month’s imprisonment.