MR. DAVIDSON AGAIN
EX-RECTOR OUT OF GAOL. The ex-rector of Stiff key, 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 his taxi. A negress, dressed in native costume, placed around his shoulders a garland of roses. The ex-rector, an hotel chef in his white smock and cap, and the negress got into an open landau and paraded through the streets. Then Mr. Davidson returned to the exhibition, where he was on show in a barrel. “I 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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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 7
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195MR. DAVIDSON AGAIN Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 7
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