"EXPECT ME TO GO NAKED?"

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 4

"EXPECT ME TO GO NAKED?"

DEBTOR'S V j answers of a judgment■ debtor*'t*-' a lawyer who was examining himSinj Court as to his financial position brought"" the reproof of Mr. lliddell, S.M., upon/the.'/ debtor yesterday'morning. ■ ftpi Tho debtor entered the-box, and;took:, the proscribed oath, ,; " -■ ' v'.'fl-Jr-"What are you doing?" began the law-

yer. '- ; -' * '/\7 "Standing here,"-answered tho debtor; I '/-!;; "Oh, you need not' give an answer lik*.' that," interjected Mr. Kiddoil, decisively, i Proceeding with his examination,, tho\; lawyer elicited answers to the effect that, the'restaurant business, in which debtor/ was engaged was not paying, rKit debtor" got no "money, and that the debtor's., wife.; held the cash. ' '■ ■ % - ■ The debtor reiterated that ■; ho got no money. ,■'■: '*■ 'liV . ~ ,„■: "Well, who pays for;,your : j/dothes?,- ; queried the lawyer.' . ..yV. ,-'i '■■>.'-'■*. ■'■■ V The debtor: *'That'."!s" a very,funny thing to atk me! Do you expect me to go; naked?" - ■..■ '','''' "»' His AVorship:'-"! /don't want any-'of those impertinent answers." . -. . ■'■_■■.■ ; The lawyer:. ."Well, may I" put it this way:-Docs'-your wife : pay for yourclothes?" .. '■■■■'■■■ ■■ .*/'./ ■'",?., ~ . ' •'■'' ,-:The debtor: "You can put'it that wayif von'like." V. ; '~''■':'' ■',- '~ ' , ' ;i.j : ' i The lawver (a little later).:., "I submit, your Worship, that this debtor is so unsatisfactory tiiat an order should be mad*, against him." '■ -J->.,:-.■,■■ n ■ His.Worship told tho debtor that \t. was his business to be able to answer, tnfl '''questions as to his financial position, and 'that (ho caso would be adjourned for a. week in order that' tho debtor might furnish himself with.the"required knowledge.;