The story is told of a Supreme Court case where a material witness in a criminal charge was a little girl. She had been carefully coached by her mother as to the answers she would give. “ When the judge asks you where you will go if you tell a lie, you are to say you’ll go to hell.” But unfortunately the judge put the question in a different wav. Assuming his blandest smile, and adopting his gentlest tone, he asked : “Do you understand the nature of an oath ? ” “ Go to hell,” replied the child, with solemn gravity.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 8
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