A fellow was on trial before a police magistrate for stealing chickens. The proof was circumstantial, the main thing seeming to be that footmarks were found in the snow near the roost exactly corresponding with prisoner's boots—patches, nails, and all. The prisoner's counsel thought he had a green one in the prosecutor's witness, who was apparently all that fancy painted him. Counsel put this question :—" Now hew do you know my client had on these boots last night? How do you know I didn't have 'em on!" The witness demurely answered, '• 'cause you didn't know they's any chickens there!" The prisoner was convicted.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 244, 19 November 1878, Page 2
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103Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 244, 19 November 1878, Page 2
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