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HER RETRACTION IN COURT. (By Mezroph.-flpecial Correspondent.) Auckland, February 14; A strange statement was mado by a lady giving evidenco in n case at the Police Court yesterday morning. On entering tho box," before sho would tako tho oatb, sho demanded to know who was going to pay her expenses.. In reply to the prosecuting counsel, she stated that the constable who had served her with tho subpoena had merely handed the paper to her, and had instructed her to act as she had done. Tho prosecuting counsel then announced his intention of inquiring into the matter to seo if sho were speaking tho truth. In tho afternoon, however, tho witness informed tho Court that sho had been rather flurried when sho mado tho statement, and sho wished to retract it. She said that sbo had asked the constable who would pay her expenses, and ho had told her that they would bo borne by the Court. Sho concluded that she was.right in asking for tho expenses beforo riving her evidence.: . Her explanation was accepted by the justioes on the bench. ■ 1
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 6
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184FLURRIED WITNESS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 6
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