Smash and Grab Comedy.
A basket of coins the colour of gold in a jeweller’s window . . Smash goes the window and through the jagged hole a man seizes a handful of the coins and scatters them on the pavement. . . A crowd scrambles for them, but, alas!* they are not halfsovereigns; thev are new farthings. The story was told at Lambeth police court, London, when William John Rouller, 49 years of age, an ex-pro-fessional boxer, was charged with stealing 3s worth of new farthings from a shop in Rye Lane, Peckham, and with damaging the £7O window. A constable h*ud he heard the smashing of glass and saw Rouller. whose right hand was bleeding, grab some coins from a basket and throw them on the pavement. He (the constable) and a passer-by seized the man, who said: “If you had not been so quick 1 would have cleared the basket.” Rouller was remanded for a medical
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20649, 25 June 1935, Page 5
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155Smash and Grab Comedy. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20649, 25 June 1935, Page 5
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