A SOOT IN LONDON
HELD UP TRAFFIC FOR A CORKSCREW. Joseph Macdonald (21), a steel worker from Scotland, employed on Waterloo Bridge, was stated at the Mansion Rouse Police Court, London, to hare brandished a bottle of whisky before a policeman on traffic duty in Fleet street, exclaiming: “Mon, hao ye a bit corkscrew?” The interview attracted a crowd, which stopped the traffic, and as Macdonald would not go away ho had to bo arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. “ 1 was waitin',” Macdonald told the court, “for a friend. A bit of a fule is my friend. Man, bo lost seven quid of bis wages on Friday nicht, and X was wantin’ to see him to safety. Ha was talkin’ to strangers, which ah consider unsafe lor a Scottish man to do in London.” Alderman Sir J. BaddoJey fined Macdonald 3Us, and warned him in future not to apply to the police when in want of a corkscrew (says tho ‘Daily Mail’).
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 1
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164A SOOT IN LONDON Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 1
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