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SMITH'S STORIES , '.
Kept From
Gaol By
A Kiss! A
T)OCK-LABORER William Altoft. I
was about to 'go below' from H
the dock of the Hull Police Court ?
(England), sentenced to 14 days' fl
imprisonment for assaulting an of- I
ficial of the Unemployment Assist- , 1
anqe Board. 9
His wife, a neatly-dressed woman ?
who had been at the back of the ?
Court, walked .up, kissed him. ?
Magistrate J. R. McDonald was ?
looking, called across the Court: ?
'What sort of a chap^ is your ?
husband?' . . . 'One of the best,' I
was the firm reply, and the wife B
added she knew her husband would B
never do anything like it again. fl
Magistrate said: 'I saw you ?
kiss him. I can't stand it, I tell H
you frankly. You have kept him fl
out of prison.' fl
Sentence on Altoft was altered ' fl
from 14 days to a fine of £1. fl
The wife left the Court on the ?
arm of the man who was 'one of fl
the best.' I
Magistrate Grants I
Youth Permission I
To Marry I
'THIS is another story of Hull ?
(England) Magistrate J. R. fl
. McDonald. . fl
Gordon Fox, 19-year-old tugman, ! I
applied to him for permission to 9
marry. ?
The magistrate told him : 'It will ?
be no fault of mine if it does not - S
work out all 'right. You have to H
make a success of it. Right you are, H
and the best of luck to you.' ?
Fox's father refused consent to B
the marriage, the boy said, but his ?
18-year-old sweetheart's parents ?
were quite happy about it. ?
'It is a risk,' said Mr. McDon- jfl
aid. ' . '. I
'I am qute willing to take it,' ?
replied Fox. ?
'Toy'' Airguns Are A I
Menace Everywhere 1
pERTH isn't the only place where ?
'toy' airguns are a menace, as B
this story shows: — B
Paul and Tony Smith, ten-year- B
old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. B
Arthur Smith, of Terling, near fl
Chelms'ford, Essex (England), were B
playing with a toy airgun Christ- B
mas present when it went off acci- v fl
dentally and a lead pellet entered ' B
Paul's eye. The eye was removed. fl
James Green, fourteen, was killed fl
when a small rifle with which he fl
was playing at his home in Lower H
Tadmarton, Oxon (England), ex- ?
ploded. The bullet entered his fl
skull. fl
'Two-Bottle Man'— At - J
16 Years I
TF you are one of those who think fl
the boys of today are going fl
'soft,' you'll change your mind fl
when you read of these three fl
'tough guys'.' who appeared before fl
the English courts. fl
The first, aged sixteen, was a fl
two-bottle boy; the second, a year fl
younger, had made merry on red fl
wine; the third, only twelve, was fl
described by police as an accom- fl
plished cracksman. fl
The two-bottle boy, bound over at B
Grays, Essex, for driving under the fl
influence of drink, said he bought fl
two bottles of port because he was fl
fed up with home, and went for a ?
joyride. fl
The red wine drinker, of North- ?
amp ton, was found lying so help- HJ
less in a doorway that he had to ,BJ
be carried to the police station. He fl
was ordered to pay 4s costs. fl
And at Neath, South Wales, the fl
magistrates could scarcely believe B
their ears as they listened to the fl
exploits of the twelve-year-old B
'Raffles.' He was caught by a de- B
tective at night in a house he was fl
said to have broken into six fl
times. * fl
When the detective shone his H
light on him the boy asked him fl
who he was, and spoke as if the H
house- was his own home. fl
Fearing he was being taken to fl
the police station, the boy used H
bluff right through. He gave a fl
false name and said he was suf- ? fl
fering from heart trouble and fl
would collapse if he were taken to fl
the station. H
The boy was bound t over for fl
twelve months. ' fl
Worked So Hard He I
Was Fined I
WHEN a chimney sweep was fl
fined 5s at Wolverhampton fl
(England) for having his chimney B
on fire, Superintendent Crofts said B
the sweep told a police-constable fl
that he had been too busy sweep- fl
ing other people's chimneys to - - B
sweep his own. B
'He is a bit different from the B
sweep who complained to me a fl
few weeks ago of the number of B
chimney fires and said he was al- fl
most out of work,' added the super- fl
intendent. ' B
The Sweep: There were only a -?[
few sparks. . Bj
Superintendent Crofts: A few H
sparks! When the constable got ?
near the house he couldn't see for H
cmoke. HJ
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