WITTY JUDGE RETIRES
After sixteen years at Westminster County Court, Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, who was defending, counsel in the famous Crippen trial, retired at the end of last year. Judge Tobin, who was 80 on Boxing Day, will be succeeded at Westminster by Judge Sir Mordaunt Snagge, from Marylebone. Witty and wise, patient and kindly, Judge Tobin made a great reputation, for himself at Westminster. Here are some of his sayings:—The most beautiful thing a woman can have is beauti« ful white hair. A young man who follows no occupation ought to be in a lunatic asylum. In affluent days before the war, I found I paid a great deal more for my chauffeur's overcoat than I paid for my own. Bookmaking is a perfectly respectable calling. Judges have had their "bits on," I suppose.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 13
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