HEROICS IN COURT.
BY A GAOL'MALINGERER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, March 4. The prisoner, Joseph Edger, was before Mr. Eraser, S.M., .to-day'on a further chargo of malingering in Auckland gool. He protested tliat. lie was treated with antagonism becauso lie iv;is ail American. He disputed the medical testimony that lie was capable of doing work. !
Mr. Eraser said tho suggestion of prejudice against Americans Was <iuile unfounded. In the case of the prisoner, bad ho committed the crime for which lie was sentenced in the United States ho would have been lynched. So far from treating prisoner badly, tho warders woro inclined to show consideration.
"Consideration," interjected Edger; "well, I am in a position nf being able to speak louder at my death than I can here."
The Magistrate impeded a sentence of fourteen days in a lighted cell, with bread and water; prisoner to be permitted to go t,o work at tho expiration of three days if ho so desired.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 9
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161HEROICS IN COURT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1690, 5 March 1913, Page 9
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