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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2253, 27 July 1908, Page 1

“Stow that, over there! WJicn aro you going to shut up P How can the Court hear itself think when yon jaw, you blithering idiots?” shouted the presiding judge from the bench of the commercial tribunal in Paris (says the correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”). Counsel wore petrified, and the officers of the Court horror-struck. “You are all of you a parcel of old fatheads,” the judge went on at the top of his voice, and the very walls were shuddering, when an officer, having recovered consciousness, made a dash for the bench, collared the judge, and threw him out, shouting that he was no judge at all, but a lunatic who had somehow usurped the majestic office. The real Court having appeared, business was taken on as usual. After an wljournamenfc, the lunatic, who had managed to get loose again, usurped the judge’s seat afresh, and addressed tlio counsel in the same vigorous style. But this time there was no hesitation, though there was some difficulty in. ejecting the sham judge. He was prepared for events, and clung desperately to his seat. lho undignified spectacle was seen of lour policemen struggling to remove a respectable-looking, if loud-mouthed, elderly gentleman from the bench. He had to be bound hand and foot before he could be removed' to the nearest hospital. Tho unfortunate lunatic is bolieved to bo a German-

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