SCRAMBLING FOR COINS.
A DANGEROUS AMUSEMENT The first prosecution under a new bylaw which forbids people to throw money to children from motor-cars, came before the Brighton magistrate? a few week? ago In the dock Leonard Wilcock, was a railway signalman, of Dewsbury, Yorks. It was stated 1 that defendant was in a car with other men returning from Brighton races, and, despite being asked not to throw money to children, he continued to do so. Two * small boys scrambling ‘for coins narrowly escaped being run over by mentor conchas. Defendant treated the matter with contempt, and other -people in the car were hostile to tho police. Wilcock was fined 40s.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19583, 12 September 1925, Page 19
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111SCRAMBLING FOR COINS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19583, 12 September 1925, Page 19
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