THE ART OF PERJURY.
“You. cannot fathom the native Indian mind,” remarked Air. J. T. Jarbo, a Bengal magistrate, who has come to Australia to settle members of his family on the land, and has just passed what he describes as a moot profitable month at Hawkosbury College. "Ono of the first cases I tried in Chittagong (Eastern Bengal), 33 years ago, well illustrates the point. Plaintiff alleged that defendant’s cattle were grazing on his land, and that whilst- he was impounding them defendant and a host of others attacked and maltreated him rescuing* the cattle. Defendant denied that his cattle wore trespassing on the plaintiff’s land— : tlioy invariably grazed elsewhere. It was defendant who had been subjected to the most cruel ill-treatment. There were many witnesses on each side,” added Air. Jarbo, “and I took considerable trouble to go into the case, in which there was such an extraordinary conflict of testimony. As i result, I ascertained that defendant owned no cattle at all, and plaintiff liad no land. That was r\v f :st experience on tho Indian Item a; Lei it is only illustrative of scons-of others.” &*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 4
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