31 MAY 1924, Page 16

"EVEN IN AN AFFIDAVIT."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the Spectator's leading article of May 24th, it was Lord Justice Bowen, a Common Law Judge, who, with a gentle dig at the Chancery practice of admitting evidence by affidavit, so aptly remarked, "Truth will out—

even in an affidavit."—! am, Sir, &c., J. C. F.