BOLD CUTHBERT.
WILL GO TO GAOL TILL HELL FREEZES.
A young man who set out to harangue the Bench at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court recently on the subject of civil liberty, was not permitted to progress far with his rhetoric.
A number of cases of refusal to take the oath of allegiauce were being heard, and the defendant in one case —Cuthbert L- S. Beary — was charged with retusiug to take the oath. His maimer throughout was offensively loud and swaggering. Striding forward with a ridiculous “do or die” air, he began by curtly demaudiug that “our military friend” (pointing to the sergeant m Court) should go into the box. He admitted that he was a British subject, but stated that he was not liable under the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, which over-rode the New Zealand law ; also the of Limerick, which exonerated Irishmen from military service. Assuming a dictatorial attitude, he proceeded to loudly point out to the Bench his perfect right to please himself in the matter, but was brought up with a run by a fine ol 40s and costs. “Well,” he said, “you can put me in gaol till hell freezes, but I won’t pay that fine.” His ignominious ejection from the Court immediately followed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1033, 20 April 1912, Page 4
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210BOLD CUTHBERT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1033, 20 April 1912, Page 4
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