SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 191, 14 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

COMMENTS WISE AND OTHERWISE. A barrister at the Oldham County Court toe other day put it to a witness that "You heard it with your own lips 5" * * * "What made you think he was drunk?' asked the solicitor of a constablo at Clerkenwejl. "He staggered and his eyes were diluted.'' replied the constable, •* * * "I am at the ——- Restaurant,"' explained a waiter at London Sessions recently. "You have your meals there?" asked counsel. "Oh, no; I only wait there," was the emphatic reply. "I go to another restaurant for my meals." * * * A man charged at Willesden with being drunk, pleaded that he only had one glass. "Only one glass?" asked the magistrate, in surprise. "Quite right, sir,'' replied the prisoner. "Unfortunately, I had it filled a g lod many times." » * * At the City Summons Court a policeman said that a lad gave the name of Cohen lis did not think that was the lad's proper name, so tool; him to the police-station. There he was recognized as Samuel L'vinsky. The Lad: "That's the name T gave ihe policeman, but he doesn't understand English." '* * * Mr. Justice Bucknill at Sussex Assizes a.-ked what the initials (Ai.D. represented on a visiting-card found in tlie possession of a prisoner. A police witness told h ; s lorddiip that they stood for Criminal Investigation Department. The judiie observed that sometimes initials were open to curious interpretations He recollected hearing the letters "V.R." on the Black Maria interpreted as "Virtue Rewarded," or " Vagrants Removed."