STOLEN KISSES.
STRANGE LAW IN ITALY /
The tribunal at Ravenna, Italy, has decided that it is permissible for a man to kiss a woman in public, even if it is not willingly given by the lady; that, in fact, it is not an outrage against decency. This judgment was delivered when the following case was submitted for the weighty decision of the law A pretty woman, accompanied by her husband, alighted at the railway station and asked a young railwayman to carry her trunk The youth was so struck by her beauty that he put Ins arm round her neck and kissed her in the presence of her astonished husband and n large number of passengers The offended lady gave the mai. a good punch, and the husband followed suit even more vigorously Finally the man was arrested and charged The judge could find nothing in law making the embrace a punishable offence, and he acquitted him The railway authorities who had dismissed the offender thereupon reinstated him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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168STOLEN KISSES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)
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