“Why,” asked the magistrate severely, “did you strike your husband with a chair?” “Because,” said the lady, “I couldn’t lift the stove.” “Ho claims his wife was intractable, your Lordship, so he beat her into subjection with a golf club.” “In how, pinny strokes ?” asked the judge.
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Evening Star, Issue 19893, 15 June 1928, Page 4
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