NEW PRODIGAL SON
(HOME TWICE IN' 24 YEARS. FATHER CALLS POLICE. LONDON, November 10. A new version of the story of tho prodigal son was told to the Acton police by an elderly man, says tho “Weekly Dispatch.” Someone knocked at his door late at night, and when he opened it he 6aw a man, who said, “I’m your son. I have come to pay off an old: debt.” The father dodged hastily, in order to avoid a blow. slammed the door, rushed out by the back way, climbed the fence, and brought the police. The son had by that time disappeared. The police found his weapon, a piece of iron piping, which he had left behind. The father explained that he had seen his eon only twice in the last 24 years. On the last occasion he had to call the police because of his son’s threats, and it was this “debt” that the son desired! to wipe off.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 7
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