MR DAVIDSON AGAIN
EX-RECTOR OUT OF GAOL. The cx-reetor of Stiffkey, Mr Harold Davidson, returned to Blackpool, Lancashire, after serving nine days in Walton Gaol for debt. He travelled from Liverpool by taxi, but it had been reported that he was to arrive at one of the stations, and a crowd gathered outside. A band had gone there to give the ex-rector a welcome, but the police moved them on. The ex-rector went in his taxi to the station, but the police would not permit him to alight there. He went to the goods station, where a small knot of people cheered him as he got out of Ins taxi. A necrose, dressed in native costume, placed" across his shoulders a garland of r °The ex-rector, an hotel chef in his white smock and cap. and the negrcss got into nn o ne„ landau and paraded through the .streets Then Mr Davidson returned to the exhibition, where he was on show in a barrel. . , “1 would not have missed my experience of prison for anything.; Mr Davidson said. “The only complaint I have to make is'that I was not allowed to smoke my cigars. ’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22052, 7 September 1933, Page 16
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