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WOMAN HELPS POLICE. LONDON, July 15. A London policeman who was getting the worst of an encounter with a gang of roughs found an unexpected and powerful ally in a grandmother. Mrs. Jessie Pepper, who acts as police matron at the Albany Street Police Station, was walking with her grand-daughter in Seaton Street, Hampstead Road, N.W., when she saw the constable being dragged to the ground by a crowd of men. Without'hesitation she went to his assistance and secured his whistle- ,It was knocked from her hand, but not before she had blown a blast. Mrs. Pepper was struck by two of the men, and a hostile crowd collected. Undaunted, she borrowed a cricket bat from a small boy who was looking on, and laid about her with a W ’U. “I gave two of them a good hiding with jt,” she said triumphantly to tho Marylebone Magistrate yesterday. The gang fled, with the exception of Edward Kelly, aged 38, who was arrested. For being drunk and assaulting the police, Kelly was sentenced to fourteen days’ hard labour and lined 7s 6d. . “Many men would have hesitated tc do what you did,” said the Magistrate to Mrs. Pepper-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1925, Page 8
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