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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2359, 8 October 1880, Page 3

A distinguished and long-winded lawyer defended a criminal unsuccessfully. At the end of the trial the judge received the following note : —The prisoner humbly pra3’s that the time occupied by the plea of the counsel for the defence be counted in the sentence. A celebrated Old Bailey barrister tells the following : —A Yankee was placed on his trial at the Old Bailey. On the first witness being called, the prisoner, with a peculiarly American accent asked, My lord, is this man going to give evidence against me.p ” “ Yes, ” was the reply. “ Then I plead guilty —not that I am guilty, but I wish to save his soul. ” An American found it very cheap talk to condemn flogging, and he told his audience he would prove it. “My father, ” he said, “ once flogged me very severely when I was telling the truth.’’ “ Wall, now, ” observed another American, at the end of the table, “ I have known you since you growed up, and it appears to me that your father cured you. ”