LAW COURT SPARKLETS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2066, 13 January 1925, Page 7

LAW COURT SPARKLETS.

LONDON SIDELIGHTS. I I Mansfield woman: (iewtlemen, Jam I non fit J u» scratch his face. Nottingham woman: My husband is J like ii rare gem—seldom seen. Two men summoned at West Ham j were named. Lightman and Blackmail. Nottingham woman: J. never swore in my life—but 1 did on this occasion. Landlady at Old Street.': On pay days she and her husband return home "half-flavoured," as they call it. Willesden man: 1 am now unemployed. I left my work to devote all my time to finding rooms for my family. "I was only summoned by chance, because it was by chance I had title motor-cycle," said a man at Ealing. Beggar charged at Tottenham: 1 once had the dole, h'at I gave it up because I could earn a living by begging. Willesden magistrate: Did he wanl to fight you? Postman: Oh, yes. They all want to, fight me. That's my job. ; Midlands witness: He had been in the sun. Magistrate: We have had no sun lately. Witness: I mean the Sun Inn. Man of 70, accused of drunkenness j at the Thames Court: I have no teeth to eat witih, and I must keep myself J up somehow. Haggard penitent at Marlboroiugh Street: It was whisky with lobaters. j Mr Scanlon (the magistrate) : Ten j shillings. Beware of lobsters. Policeman in Surrey: She was com- I ing oi.it of an oft-licensed house. Wo- I man (haughtily): No, ft was not; it j was a doctor's insulting room. , Man at Tottenham: I was not in j York, but in Yorkshire. Magistrate: i if York is not in Yorkshire, where is j it? Man: Farther'' up country. An old poacher who was fined at Ruabon, Denbighshire, asked for toimo to pay. "Magistrate's clerk: You can manage to pay . £liey fetch 5s 6d a couple, yofa know! Solicitor at Kingfitou of a. young woman accused of using had language: I would not say that she is an absolute saint, as 'she comes from Commercial Road. Monmouthshire solicitor to a wife of 73 who sought a separation from her husband., aged 74. Your heart olnght' td be tender at your 1 age. Woman: It is harder than ever it was.