"What did you say tho prisoner's name was?" asked the Clerkenwell magistrate of the clork. "I am not able to pronounce 'it, , ' replied the clerk. "It is K-r-e-d-r-i-t-s-c-li." ■ After bewailing tho fact that nine of-her chickens had been stolon during the. night, a San Francisco woman picked up a pocketbook, containing £180 in notes and gold, which ho thief had dropped. She had buried three husbands, and the fourth lay cold whilo the undertaker measured him. And sho was known in the Kentish village to have put aside something more than husbands. "It isn't p'raps tho right time to mention such matters/' said tho undertaker to the widow, "but if you was thinking of taking a fifth——'' "Now that conies of being precipitous," replied tho widow. "I've just took tho barber what jjonio to shave tho corpse." . ■ ■ ... .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 9
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