THE CUE THAT CHEERS
AN IMPUDENT "DRUNK"
The story of how an unknown man walked into a boarding-house, picked up a cup of tea, announced that he was goi.ig to drink it, and blacked the eye of the owner of the tea on being remonstrated with, was told in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Sub-In-spector J. A. Dempsey, when Leonard. William Beach, a labourer, aged 51, pleaded guilty before Mr. E. D. Mos]ey, S.M., to assault and to a fifth statutory, offence of drunkenness. Sub-Inspector Dempsey said that the man, who was a stranger to the establishment, walked into the diningroom when a meal was in progress.. He picked up a cup of tea belonging to one of the .diners, and said that he was going to drink it; The diner remon-: strated with him, whereupon |he accused struck the diner in the eye. He was ejected by the other boarders, and arrested in the street.
Beach was fined £2, in default 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour, on the assault charge, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for drunkenness.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 20
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183THE CUE THAT CHEERS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 20
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