COMEDY OF TWINS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1913, Page 6

COMEDY OF TWINS.

POLICE SAID /O HAVE .MISTAKEN TWO BROTHERS.

Tho Stevenage twins, Ebcnezer Albert Fox and Albert Ebenezer Fox, aged fifty years, declare that their remarkable likeness to each other has onco again led the wrong one into trouble. Ebenezer Albert, wearing a largo buttonhole, applied at the Hitchin (Hertfordshire) Police Court for compensation for wrongful arrest, declaring that his brother Albert Ebenezer should have served tho seven days’ imprisonment for poaching which lie had just completed. Albert Ebenezer also wrote to tho Magistrates that lie was guilty, but the claim was dismissed.

Only a few weeks ago Albert Ebcuezor was sent to prison for a month for poaching. On this occasion Ebenezer Albert declared that he was really guilty, and that tho police had failed to notice the difference between the two men. Ebcnezcr Albert is a cheerful little man, almost completely bald. Ho is oft. Sin in height, and has a merry twinkle in las- eye. His moustache is iron grey. But all this applies equally well to Albert Ebenezor. The only difference between them is that one has the markfe of five cuts on the left wrist; the other possesses four scars on tho right wrist.

The close resemblance between the two bewilders Stevenage. When young their father tied a red ribbon on the arm of ono and a blue ribbon on the other to distinguish them. Between them they have been convicted'nearly 150- times for poaching, and'they state that at least a dozen times the wrong one received the punishment.