Silent Language

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 7

Silent Language

JUDGES hear so much verbiage •* m the course of a day's judicial march, that it is unusual to find one who has a practical ex- - perience with the language of silence. It was during the recent criminal sessions at Auckland .that the accused, a young man who was deaf and could not speak too distinctly, found difficulty m making himself thoroughly, understood. Judge Blair surprised the court by commencing to "talk" on his' fingers to the accused and thus extracted the words and phrases which, until then, were beyond oral expression.