SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 129, 7 January 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

A Wigan man denied being dnnm because ho could count his iingcis.

•'I shall not give anyone away; honesty among thieves is the best," a prisoner charged at Tower Bridge was alleged to have said.

A policeman at the Thames Police Court told the magistrate, "I was knocked down, and lay on the ground insensible for ten minutes, blowing my whistle.''

At Leeds Assizes r. witness, quost'oned as to the identity of a man he had mentioned as being present, said: " I believe he was a gentleman once upon a time, but he's n publican now."'

In the Belfast C'u-tody Court a constable stated that when arrested the previous evening a prisoner .said: "I'll say nothing till the morning, and then I'll get my solicitor to say it for me."

* * * * " Krigliton'ng young people in a public park just when they are engaged in kissing is the meanest trick 1 know." said a Philadelphia magistrate, in lecturing two boys brought before him.

"This is the end of chapter one," said Frank Wheeler, of Spitalfields, when arrested, with John W. Hudson, on the charge of making spurious halfcrowns. "This is the end of chapter two," Wheeler observed when 1 e ;nd Hudson were sent for trial by tin- Old street magistrate.

"I am King Harold, the rightful King of England.'' was the reply v.hen Harold Allen, of Birmingham, was asked for his t'eket at Willesden. Prisoner also tokl the magistrate that this wn-3 a spiritual matter with him. He was Harold, the rightful King jf the British Isles, and had come to London to claim his throne.