“GEE WHIZ!”
SURPRISED MAN’S EXPRESSIONS TALE OF AN~EXPRESS. Described as hawkers, Walter Thomas Miles and, Archibald West appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer charges of “converting to their own nae, but not so as to be guilty of theft, a horse express, the property of Edward Henry Aiken.” Miles ’pleaded . not guilty and West guilty. Aiken stepped into tbo witness box and said that he owned a laundry in Adelaide road, and that he also owned a horse express which he missed from its resting place on November 17th. When he saw it again it had different shafts. A carrier named suid that Miles had spoken to him, asking if he knew where a horse and cart could be obtained. He suggested Mr Aiken. Thomas Miller, a blacksmith, said that West told him that he had bought the express —and shafts —from Aiken. Miller recognised his own shafts and demanded their return. The charge against Miles was dismissed, but West was fined £5. On hearing the extent of the penalty West clapped his hands to his head and called out “Oh! What! After describing two or three circles on the floor he looked up and said: “Geo whizz your Worship, L’ll have to work hard to earn thatl”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19261204.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12621, 4 December 1926, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
215“GEE WHIZ!” New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12621, 4 December 1926, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.