An Australian exchange says the word gentleman is applied in such a thoroughly inappropriate manner in courts as to be extremely funny. “Me and this gentleman ” is a common phrase for a prisoner to use of a mate in the dock, and witnesses of ali classes frequently speak of the prisoner as “that gentleman. ” On Tuesday, at the (ity Court, there was a more than usually ludicrous instance of using the word as a misnomer, when a boy who gave his evidence clearly and intelligibly, said, “ I saw that gentleman (the prisoner) and this hero detective together,"
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Evening Star, Issue 3163, 9 April 1873, Page 2
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97Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3163, 9 April 1873, Page 2
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