DISTURBING A JUDGE'S REST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 27 July 1885, Page 2

DISTURBING A JUDGE'S REST.

Barron fluddlestqn, when holding the Assizes at Worcester, complained sorely to the chief of police of being. disturbed in his slumbers by the crowing of a cook, .and asked whether anything oould bo done to sto]) the awakening voice. After a .consultation among the officials, the neighborhood was searched, the result being that in a pen, a few streets distant, a small bantam cock, iyas found. The police told the owner the charge' against the supposed offending bantam, and suggested that tjie bird should be removed or be taken some distance away. The owner immediately took the part of the bantam, saying it never disturbed him, and that he should let it remain where it was, E[e never heard it crow louder than a tomtit, and surply there was a mistake in eupposing it was the disturber complained of. The officials returned to the Judges lodging; and, to ! the laughable amazement of. all present, it was found that the cook which ■ had disturbed the learned Baron was one which t his own cook had brought with him in' a- hamper, to be killed, whenwanted'f or the table. It was executed before cock-crow, next morning.