IRISH AMAZON LOVED A FIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 2

IRISH AMAZON LOVED A FIGHT.

“ FATHER SAYS I’M NOT: BUT I SAY I AM.” “A trenchant letter” was the comment of Judge Gawar Taylor at Keswick County Court recently after reading what sounded like a declaration of war written by a young war widow, Mrs R. Carr, who was left in occupation of Lonscale View, Keswick, by her aunt, Miss Hamilton, last year. Messrs H. J. Billinge and Co., of Manchester, now applied for possession of the house, which they bought with the

Greta pencil work? at Keswick. They gave the tenant. Miss Hamilton, notice last year. In reply to a request for the key, Mrs Carr wrote to Mr 11. J. Billinge:—; . “I am Irish and love a good figlv', vo lets get on with it. (Laughter.M you come to get the key I shall certainly smash your head. (Laughter.) When I was a confectioner the landlord came into the bakehouse, and. although he was 6ft, and brazen as brass. I said, ‘Get out of this or I will smash / your head.’ He went smart, as I had • an iron rake in my hand. (Laughter.) I have been told twice T would kill someone. (Laughter.) I once hit an Irishman as hard as ever I could with a heavy poker because he teased me. (Laughter.) “When I was 14 I fought with two boys and won. and they were bigger than I. (Laughter.) I always do win, and will win with you. (Laughter.) If you wish to prosper do not make an enemy of me. A gentleman sent me a solicitor’s letter and died four months after. A gentleman I disagreed with had a son with a swanky motor-bike, and I was so wild I wished he would fall off and smash the thing to atoms. (Laughter.) That happened two or three weeks after. (Laughter.) ” Mrs Carr, when asked by the Judge of she were Irish, said: “My father says I’m not, but I say I am—(laughter)—although I have never been to Ireland.” (Laughter.) An order was made for possession in three months.