A “PERNICIOUS PRACTICE.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 10

A “PERNICIOUS PRACTICE.”

COPPERS FROM CHARABANCS. "What Is described by his Honor Mr Justice Granger at Southwark County Court lately as a reprehensible and dangerous practice caused a serious Injury to a little girl named Kate Bartholomew, who was awarded £l4O a in July a charabanc party gathered in a street preparatory to a journey to the seasid6> when, according to counsel for plainti, a pasenger threw out a number of coppers. In the course of the scramble which followed, the plaintiff ran into the road. At that moment the charabanc, belonging to John Puddifoot, of Southend, the defendant In the action, was started on someone shouting " all right." One of plaintiff's feet was crushed, and had to be amputated. The judge said the practice of trippers throwing coppers to children was a shocking and pernicious one, and should be stopped. In addition to encouraging children to be beggars on the public highway, which in itself was an objectionable procedure, those people who threw them pence from vehicles were causing children to run grave risks in the crowded thoroughfares of London.