FRIEND IN COURT
MAN'S FINE PAID FOR HIM LONDON, April 2. A pleasant surprise awaited a visitor to the Mansion House Justice Room; Ordered recently to pay 40s or go to prison for one month tor a dole fraud, and given fourteen days in which to pay, he now appeared before the Lord Mayor, and offered to pay the fine by instalments of os a week out. of his dole money. He admitted that he had not got the initial os on him. The Lord Mayor was considering the situation, when a man in court gave the gaoler 5s for the first instalment. The Lord Mayor (to applicant): Yon have been helped by a gentleman with a very kind heart, and I will permit you to pay the remainder of the fine as you have asked. Applicant was about to leave the court when the gaoler tapped him on the arm and said: “The gentleman who handed me the 3s has just given mo the remaining Jos, so the whole of your fine is paid.”’
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Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 9
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175FRIEND IN COURT Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 9
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