OYER THE SHOULDER.
HOW WASHINGTON TREATS PESTS.
If you read a newspaper over the shoulder of the man—or woman—who happened to have bought it in Washington, U.S.A., you are liable to a line of £5, and it may be even more it this sort of thing goes on! One, James Van Burn, aged thirtyseven, tried it in a street car in Washington. A woman was reading her newspaper, and he did his Peeping Tom stuff on a real hot news story. Conductor Mills told the court that the woman obviously annoyed moved several feet, but Van Burn had not finished the story he was reading, and moved over beside her, whereupon the conductor called a policeman who arrested the man. “I have been waiting a long time” said Judge McMahon, “to get at one of tnose people who read newspapers over shoulders.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10830, 31 March 1932, Page 4
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142OYER THE SHOULDER. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10830, 31 March 1932, Page 4
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