LIGHTS FAIL
BUT MURDER TRIAL CONTINUES WOMAN IN THE BOX Flickering ominously for some minutes, the electric lights in the Supreme Court late yesterday afternoon suddenly went out, plunging the murder trial into gloom. A stentorian roar, “Silence!” peremptorily checked loud murmurs, and half-suppressed gasps from the public gallery. The woman witness in the box was dimly visible, and the questioning quietly proceeded in the fast-gather-ing darkness, the Crown Prosecutor the while peering closely into the typewritten pages of his brief. Seven minutes the evidence proceeded thus, and then, as the Crown Prosecutor moved to resume his seat, the lights flashed on.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 16
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102LIGHTS FAIL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 16
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