CHRISTMAS SPOILED.
82-MILE BUFFER RIDE. Desiring to visit liis relatives at Carlisle, England, at Christmas and not having the money to pay his tare, David John Potts, a builder's labourer, working at St. Albans, started the journey on the buffers of an express train from London. l'he youth rode on the buffers as far as Rugby, 82 miles, where the train stopped soon after midnight. He was chased along the platform and was eventually caught hiding under a scat in a waiting room. lie was charged at Rugby with " travelling on the railway without paying his faro and with intent to avoid payment." . 44 You ought to let me off for my pluck." Potts said to the magistrates. The youth was discharged, and he said ho should walk back to St. Albans. He added, " I am not troubling my people for the money to get homo now. Christmas has gone. I hope to have a better one next year. I have had a poor one this year."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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