KNIVES AND RAZORS
• NOT BRITISH WEAPONS LONDON, Sept. 11. “Wo do not want the knife used in this country. It is peculiarly unBritish, ” said the Recorder, Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., addressing a grand jury at the Old Bailey. He pointed out that the number of charges listed involving knife or razor wounds was exceptionally large. “People are too apt to slash out when angry or jealous, and the prevalence of' these cases must ho taken into account when meting out punishment.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 7
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81KNIVES AND RAZORS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 7
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