JIM CORBETT ON THE "PROFESSION OF GENTLEMEN."
' r James Corbktt, the former, heavy-weight 1 champion of. the world, was summoned/ at New York, for threatening to beat a milkman. He conducted his own defence, and was bound over to, keep the peace; never- , theless, his dress, refinement of speech, and general demeanour made a profound im- ; pression on the admiring court. Corhctt pooh-poohed the mere idea of even threaten--1 uigio strike the milkman, pleading, "I am a gentleman, ;your 'honor, am? belong to the profession of. gentlemen. I 5k?"C always ; been a gentleman.' aid I am known '• throughout the civilised world as a, gentleman. : Many persons are under the mis•takeu impression that because I'once was a pugilist I am nothing but a brute. That ' impression is malicious, ( and - utterly false. I never threatened the milkman, : and neither did 'I shake my fist at him. I would •not hit or threaten a milkman, and this charge is brought for the purpose of annoying me." < Corbett, who has made quite a success 021 the "American stage as an amorous hero of melodrama, hopes to appear shortly in higher forms of the American drama. <<'>'•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13307, 13 October 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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