LAW COURT SPARKLETS

Evening Star, Issue 18885, 9 March 1925, Page 3

LAW COURT SPARKLETS

Tottenham Alan: "I did not do it, but I plead guilty.” Yorkshire Wife: “My owd man has been thumping me ageean. Can you send him to Borstal?” West Ham Magistrate; “Is your husband industrious?” Wife: “No, sir; he is a hard-working man,” Nottinghamshire Father: “Wo have nine children, and in my leisure time 1 am head washer-up.” West Ham Alagistrate: “ What docs ‘ blistered ’ mean?” Police Sergeant: “That is a slang term for a summons.” Policeman at Willesdon: “When charged be said, ‘I am'druk.’” Magistrate: “He was sober enough to know that.” Willesden Landlady: “I took a tenant in nineteen years ago for a night or two, and 1 have never been able to get rid of her.” Policeman at Willesdon: “The prisoner struck a postman, sir.” Magistrate; “Not satisfied with tho Christmas delivery, I suppose.” Husband a,t Willesden : “My wife is too old to answer this summons; she is seventyseven.” Alagistrate: “Is she disabled?” Man ; " No, sir, she is at work.” Cornwall Wife: “Aly husband went away for a week and spent all the money I had Saved for a rainy day.” Husband (sullenly): “Well, it rained every day.”