CHUCKLES IN COURT
LOW TIDE
Chairman at Southend (to a man who wished to pay a fine by cheque! ;
“1 am afraid not. The bank have a habit of marking cheques 'R.D- : —rim clrv. ”
NOT GUILTY Barrister at Low County Court : “When did you instruct your solicitor r”Alan: “Struck! I never touched him.” PIECRUST PROMISES: Air 'Registrar Friend, at Olorkenweil (to -woman defendant): “I hope your promise to pay your rent is not like piecrust.” The Woman : “I generally make my piecrust pretty light.” PRICE OF FREEDOM.
Surrey Policeman: “There was a free fight, in the street, and this man was arrested.” .Magistrate : “Fined ten shillings.” Man - “The policeman said it was ‘free’ !" NERVE'S—AND NO WONDER ! “All that is wrong with my boy is Ids nerves.” said a mother to the W.i!losden magistrate. -.‘.‘And., they want to put him in the sanitary hospital.” TITS FETTER WAY Sussex Magistrate (in n desertion oa.se) : “Go hack to your wife, and you will hear nothing further about the ease.” .Husband. “Cannot you let- me off with a finer” , COMPLIMENTS! Nottingham M'oman: “She called iv»o everything in a farmyard—except a duck!”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11956, 29 May 1933, Page 3
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