MISPLACED LOVE COMEDY.
What the Tottenham magistrate called "a comedy of misplaced affection" was revealed during the hearing of an unusual case at ttiat court on Thursday, November 7. Emily Pepper, aged thirty, a domestic servant, was devoted to William Manning, a Ponders End blacksmith- Her devotion was so great a burden that the blacksmith has had to prosecute her on two occasions. She was bound over not to annoy him on October 24, but the same night she visited his house. Manning on Thursday said hu could not account for her affection. She bad thrown a pair of old boots at him. "I cannot settle myself until he marries mc," exclaimed Pepper. When fined £2 and costs she commenced to cry, and called out, "William! William!" in a plaintive voice. Her last word as she disappeared from the dock was "William!" The magistrate ordered that Pepper's surety, her master, who had expressed his willingness to marry her, should forfeit 10/. "She has misplaced her affection on William,"' he observed, "and yon have misplaced yours on her."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 17
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