BETTY IN A TANTRUM.
For breaking the receiver and mouthpiece of a public telephone, at Marble Arch Tube, a fashionably-dressed woman was prosecuted at Marylebone recently. She was described as Betty McKeown, aged 30, an hotel chambermaid. She pleaded that she just tapped the mouthpiece and it fell to pieces, It seemed that, having complained to the stationmaster that she could not get her call through, she returned to the box and beat the mouthpiece with the receiver. A constable stated he found accused in the call" box acting almost like a lunatic, and she declared that "she -would smash the lot up " if she could not get her number. She was thereupon arrested. Accused- was fined 40s and ordered to pay 103 damage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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124BETTY IN A TANTRUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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