MAN'S COSTLY JOKE.
PEPPER IN GIRL'S FACE. "I did it only for a joke," said John Canbury, a barman, of Newport, Melbourne, in tho Police Court recently, when asked why he had blown pepper in a girl's face at a dancing hall. Doris Tammo said that when she refused Canbury a dance ho opened his hand and blew some powder in her face. Her sight was temporarily affected and her nose bled. Tho powder was found to bo pepper. The magistrate to accused: It is a costly joke, for you will bo fined £lO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 15
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