SHORTS FROM THE COURTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 15

SHORTS FROM THE COURTS.

"My daughters all hrirr» their y"'Jn; men ronnd to knock mc -jboirt." —fatter o f 13, at Wiliesden. ! Mr. Clarke Hall granted a etrmmons at the Thames Police Court to a woman who : fomp'.ainM that her neighbour was detainine tier wig. Elderlr man's complaint n-fcout bis nPUrh-borirs-'Ther try t.-> stupefy us with chemical fumes ami then put eie'tric batteries | on us." "My when paying mc my house-. keeping :coiot, gave mc notice that it would bx? tie last. He said wa.** leaving ', mc tiio week for a war widow." — Wife at Wiile-sden. Mr. \Va<ldv. at Tower T.rldgre. tt> a woman who complained- aSiout her silent husl.-and: — i> golden. Perhaps XOur b'.'.eb-jinl i< a man. My usual trouble is to get women to talk iess and not men to ta'.l; more, but I -have no golden specific for the cure of eilence. Try the ccmrt missionary." I Question and answer at Bow County 1 Court: "Did you make any statements?" — "I don't make statements: I make chairs." "It looks more like a Christmas card." — 3lr. Leyoestcr at M-arylebone after glancing a-t a certificate of marriage in New York." .! "You are n>H in America now. Five shillings will fiftcn square a polioesman in , the State*."—Tie Mayor cf -Newport to an Amerteii ship's steward fined for attempting to bribe dock police. I Wlileeden Yon had a quarrel with some one: Prisoner: Xo, someone came tr'p and 'hit mc. and while to« was apologising we were -both run in. |