SIX MARRIED MEN AND A CORSET.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 439, 22 January 1890, Page 2

SIX MARRIED MEN AND A CORSET.

At this juncture the coroner desired to show the jury the direction taken by the ball, and foe this purpose produced the corset worn by Mr< Burkhart at the tiiiie of the tragedy. “ You see” sui 1 he—and here he drew the corset around his waist with the lace in front—“ the ball must have gone in from behind. N<», that can’t he, either, for the doctor says the ball went in in front. Confound R, I’ve got it on wrong. Ah 1 this way.” (Here the coroner put the corset on upside down.) “Now, you see (pointing to the hole in the garment,which rested over his hip) the ball must bare gone in here. No, that can’t be, eiiher, for—” Here Mr Mather, the handsome man on the jury broke in. “Dr Stillman.” said lie, “you’ve got that corset on wrong.” Here Dr Stilhnan blushed like a peony. “Well,” said he, “ I have been married twice, and T ought to know how to rig a. corset.” “Yes,” said Mr Mather* “hut you don’t. You had it on light at first.. The strings go. in front and the la lies clasp them together at the back. Don’t I know ? I think I ought to. I have been married. If yon doubt it, look here, (pointing to the fullness at the top). How do you suppose that’s a going to be filled up unless yoa put it on as I suggest?” “That?”' said Dr “Why, that goes over tl\e hips.” “ No, it don’t,” said Mr Mafchet?;that fuil-. ness goes somewhere else -this, way,” and Mr Mather indiciteE where bethought the fullness ought to go. Here another juryman discovered that Dr Stillman had the, corset on bottoiq, up. “Doctor,” said he, “put it on the other way.” Then the doctor put it on in reverse order, with the faces in front. This, brought the bullet holes directly over the tail of his coat.

“I don’t think,” said Mr Mather x “ that bullet went in there, doctor.” I don’t think it did,” was the reply. “Confound, ic, it’s mighty funny—six married men in this room and not one that knows how to put op a woman’s. Y.Sun.;^