NEWSBOY SUMMONED.
TOO BUSY TO APPEAR. A 16-year-old English newsboy, summoned at Reading Juvenile Court, recently, for shouting in the streets while selling newspapers, sent the following letter to the court: — 1 “Jentlemen, “I plead guilty to shouting papers in the streets and 1 am sorry I cannot appeal against the summons has I have a vegetable round to do in the morning together with my paper round at nights. “There liis over 15 paper boys on the housing estate, and each one of these does there share of shouting and yet ' the particular constable can defiently ignore other hoys but must unlawfully attack me that his concerned in devouring to get an honest living. “I should also like to draw attention to the fact that the policeman send a message to my home that I was to stop playing a mouthorgan in the street above all things. And yet a drum and fife band his aloud to come round the housing scheme after eight o’clock at night and set all the cat and dogs owling in the neighbourhood.” The summons was adjourned For the appearance of the boy and his father.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 2
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