Not for some time has the Provisional Court provided one of those little dramatic' incidents which are more typical of the movie sob stories than of the law courts, but such a one took place on Septem ber 8 when a crowded court room declaration by a little girl of six years who told the Judge that she, and not her mother, was responsible for the murder of her tath The little girl appeared in Court because the Police desired to have instructions for her care, in view of the fact that the mother had already been remanded on a charge of murdering her husband with the help and connivance of the alleged lover.
At the previous hearing of the case on Sept. 7, the mother confessed that, after' her husband had Zound cut her relations with her lover, who was also charged in eonnection with the crime, the latter had held her husband while an accomplice stabbed him to death.
The Court ordered that the child should not te placed in. custody with her mother, and all were touched by the sad spectacle of the parting, the little girl sobbing bitterly as she was led from the court oom.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.