Says the “Detroit Free Press” —“lu the police court the other day, when a man was about to be tried for assault and battery, he brought forward his boy, ten years old, as a witness. The Justice asked the lad if he knew the nature of an oath, and the boy said his father had explained it. ‘What did he say ?’ asked the Justice. ‘He said, replied the boy, 1 that if I did not swear that the other fellow struck first, he’d tan the whole hide off my back.’ That boy was told to stand down,
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Globe, Volume I, Issue 16, 18 June 1874, Page 4
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