SUPREME COURT HUMOUR.
\. , ■ . ■■■ ■■■ : » ft (By Correspondent.) Auckland, November, lit. [. It vrjis a- question' of being able to , trace footsteps on tho d.o.wy grass across r' tho Houiiora *aceco.u.r.sj>, aud.a lawyer ~' was trying at tlio Supremo 'Court this jj morning to :gict from ■■:&: 'witness tho j feasibility of this Sherlock Holmes feat. ( tflte. racecourse., is exideivtly .a.ehoft cut' from the .hotel to i\w ..3i.ai.ii frpad. Tlicfty -was-' also soino irid'ie'aftbn of tlio accused person having imbibed ftecly . the night before tho blaze, which originated tlio. change. "I. suppose," said bb.un.sei, "that .a. e drtjnken man yro.uld licit go across tho d course, but woiild stick to the jlitiiv i, Road, which is', of white sa.nd and more i, '. easily followed;,?'' !?■ "N0.," replied tho witness, • "tho L 'drunk's' tako to the cotifsc, and getting 1- .on tho track go round -and roij.nd." (, "Oh.,' 1 §.aicl .counsel, "and so get back L. to the hotel again— a voicy tiseliul ad« jiuict to a hotel."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 10
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161SUPREME COURT HUMOUR. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 10
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