ENGLISHWOMAN’S HOME
NOT A CASTLE-FOR RATS LONDON, May 18. A sanitary inspector giving evidence against Mrs Rachel Willard, living at Hampstead, who was summoned under the Rats and Mice Destruction Act, said that he had received many complaints that Mrs WillarcPs premises were infested with rats, which she harboured, placing food and water in the garden. Authorised by the Borougn Council ho went to tho house with a. ratcatcher, but Mrs Willard refused entry, announcing through the letter box that she “did not want interference with the dear little moles.” The defence maintained that Mrs Willard had acted in the old-fashioned belief that her house was her castle. The, case was adjourned, Mrs Willard undertaking to permit xho entrance of a ratcatcher.
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Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 18
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122ENGLISHWOMAN’S HOME Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 18
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