WOMAN WHO WANTED KISSES
BLOW AT JOURNEY’S END
LONDON, March 1.
Scenes in a train between Brighton and Victoria on Sunday night were described at Westminster yesterday, when Mervyn Blackensee, 50, a manufacturer’s agent, of Kensington Parkroad, was fined £5, with £2/2/- costs, for assaulting a fellow-passenger. The prosecutor, Joseph Jackson, of Dcnbigh-placc, S.W., declared lhat soon after the train started, a woman entered and tried to kiss the men passengers. , ~ She wanted to show them her beautiful hands,” and for the rest of the journey kept sitting down on their knees. When Victoria was reached the woman wanted to kiss them all ‘ goodbye” and then tried to leave the compartment by the door opposite the platform. “I pulled her back into the carriage,” continued Mr. Jackson, “and then Blackensee, without saying a word, punched me in the eye, discolouring it.” Mr. Jackson, denied that he had attempted to embrace the wo-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1937, Page 9
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