• Police Court witnesses will now be able to take an oatli to speak the truth without running much risk ot contracting an' infectious disease says the .Sydney “Morning Herald. When Senior Constable Hamilton entered the witness box at the Central Police Court he was told to open the Bib.e at the first chapter of Genesis, He did so and kissed the Book on that page. The next witness kissed the following leal. “One witness one leaf” will be the order of things till the Book lias been kissed right through. Then a no,her Book will be used. By direction of the At-torney-General the same course will in future be practised in every Couit the city. '’ ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 2
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115Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 2
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