£30 FOR A TOMBSTONE
“WICKED WASTE OF MONEY.” In order to pay for a tombstone over her husband’s grave a womJn applied to Judge Crawford at the County Court at Southend, England, for the payment of £3O out of compensation awarded her in respect of his death. The judge asked if she did not tiiink that w r as a waste of moneys She replied: “Certainly not, for my husband.” The judge: . Your husband may have bepn the best in the world, but you do pbt show your respect i>y squandering money in that way. It niay be a credit'to your feelings, bat it is no credit to your common sense.
“If there was less nonsense talked about these things it would be a good yjlng,” the judge added? “There is so much rubbish and sentimental claptrap at present instead of facing hard facts. if you had plenty of money you could afford to indulge fh these feelings, but as you have no money you, cdrinot. I will not allow it." , ’ ' On hearing that the stone had been erected find the account paid with monOy borrowed from the woman’s son, the judge' instructed that the money should be paid, adding; “It is a wicked waste.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1931, Page 6
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