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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 3

There was a sudden stoppage in the traflic in Tottenham Court Road recently. A short, stoutish, respectable middle-aged gentleman blocked the way. With one hand he kept his silk hat on, with the other grasped his umbrella. In front of oncoming motor-omnibuses he searched the ground. Horses sniffed at. him suspiciously, and the street boys cried "Blackleg," but still he searched. Was he a detective picking up a clue? Had he dropped a sovereign? Had the diamond of his ring got loose? Suddenly the traffic moved on, and the hero or detective stood on the pavement in triumph. He had found it! He then adjusted it. "It" was a glass eye. Mr V. W. Ilawlings, the Burton-on-Trent Labour leader, imprisoned for assault and released by the Home Secretary's order from Derby Prison, was welcomed by 2000 people on his return home, and drawn in procession through the streets, „