WHY HE WEPT.
A man was on trial for stealing money from a house. The counsel for the prisoner, in his address to the jury, said : “ Gentlemen, my client is a poor man. He was driven by hunger and want to take the small sum of money. All that he wanted was sufficient money to buy bread, for it is in evidence that he did not take the pocket-book containing £3OO that was in the same bureau drawer. ‘lf he were a professional thief he would certainly have taken the pocket-book.” The eloquent counsel was interrupted by the sobs of his client. “Why do you weep?” asked the judge who was on the-bench. “ Because I did not see that pocket-book in the bureau drawer,” was the reply. Everybody , laughed except the prisoner’s counsel.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 5, 29 April 1893, Page 6
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133WHY HE WEPT. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 5, 29 April 1893, Page 6
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