PROTEST AGAINST THE LAW
YOUNG LONDON PLAYWRIGHT MRS PITHER’S FINE PAID Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 10. (Received September 11, at 12.1 C p.m.) Mr Frank Vosper, the young London playwright, paid Mrs Pither’s fine, and she was released from Holloway Prison after three days. •. Mr Vosper explains his action as a protest against the law, which says: “ You will bo imprisoned if you are not rich and have not enough to pay. It is wicked to make the punishment fit the crime only in relation to persons of financial position.” [Mrs Pither was lined £SO, or three months’ imprisonment, for making a false declaration to the registrar of births.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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110PROTEST AGAINST THE LAW Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11
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