THE TWO DROMIOS.
In form and feature, face and limb. I grew go like my brother, That folks got taking me for him, And each for one another. —Henry Leigh. There was a Gilbertian element about a police court case at Stevenage on let February (says 'tho London Chronicle). A, youth named. Ebenezer .Albert .Fox was summoned for entering land with a gun for the, purpose of taking pheasants. Ebenezer Albert, however, asserted that there had been a mistake in identity, and that the real' offender was Albert Ebenezer, his twin brother. The magistrates, Among whom was Admiral Sir Thomas FellowesJ adjourned the case, to establish identity. Albert Ebenezer, when brought before the. court, said his own father did not know himself and his brother apart, and for years" tied a bit of blue ribbon on one and a piece of red ribbon on the other, to know-, the difference.Albert Ebenezer waa fined ■ £2, and Ebenezer Albert- left the court without a stain on his character. Some magistrates, faced with a similar dilemma, as a way out of the difficulty might have floed them £1 a-piece!
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 10
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