WED AND GAOLED.
FIFTEEN-MINUTE INTERVAL. . LONDONER'S PRISON HONEYMOON. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 23. Fifteen minutes after his wedding in Old Kent Road, London, this week, 23-year-old (George Brindle was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment on a lottery eharge. '"I wish I had been allowed to plead with the magistrate for George," sobbed the young bride, Annie Francis Jones, as she sat in their little home in Imville Street, Walworth, where they had planned to spend their honeymoon. "I am sure he would have had pity on me and not taken my husband from me on my wedding day. - ' Brindle was charged in connection with another man with selling chances in a lottery at Poplar. He admitted the offences, but pleaded that he had been ojit of work and was trying to get money to buy a bed, table and two chairs for his new home. '"I could not get them on the hire purchase because I had lost my job," he told the Bench. "I only got married this morning. (Jive me a chance." Brindle and his bride, who were married by the Rev.- A. W. Barker, the "Costers' Vicar," went straight from the church to the Thames Police Court.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 13
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201WED AND GAOLED. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 13
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