PRISON ORDERED FOR A KISS
Because she was found kissing a boy in public at Bbekrock. a seaside village near Dundalk, County Louth, a Glasgow girl was sentenced recent’y (in her absence) to a month’s imprisonment. She was summoned for committing an “act of impropriety” in a public place. She did not appear, and it was stated that the summons was revved on her before she left Blgckrock. At the last court the young man was ordered to pay £3 7/G. It happened like this, according to evidence given at Dundalk; district court — Members of Blackrock Vigilance Committee—three men—saw the girl and a youth kissing. The matter was reported to a civic guard. The boy and girl admitted kissing each other. The girl, it was said, went to Blackrock on holiday year after year. District Justice Golf said that probably she would not come there again. “To achieve that, since her absence is probably the best thing that could happen, 1 order her a month's imprisonment." ho said, “There is no moans, of enforcing the warrant unless she comes back. 1 suggest you don't, try to do It, but that i( be held ever her in case she corner back.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1937, Page 15
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200PRISON ORDERED FOR A KISS Northern Advocate, 9 December 1937, Page 15
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