A Wellington pressman was placed in a somewhat embarrassing position recently. A prisoner was to be identified by five different persons, two men and three women, from among a row of persons at the police station, and two members of the press were called on to make the row complete. The second identifier looked at a man in spectacles, evidently assu m ed that the glasses were a disguise, and thereupon “ identified ” him. The man in spectacles happened to be one of the pressmen. Other identifiers did not, however, repeat the error, and erious consequences were thus averted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 79, 10 April 1901, Page 2
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