MAN AND SEASIDE GIRL
TWO SIDES TO “PUBLIC INTERESTS’’ CASE. LONDON, May 2. Dismissing a charge of theft brought against a girl at Bournemouth ycsierday by Joseph Thompson, a Bristol commercial traveller on holiday at Bournemouth, the Mayor said to Thomson : You say you have brought this case in the public interest. 1 think it would be as well if you thought of the public interests before you took a young girl into the New Forest late at night. I think the sooner Bournemouth is rid of your presence the better. Thomson said that he met the girlEva May Giles (25), of Langton-road, Bournemouth —on the sea front an I took her for a ride in his cax to tue New Forest. He afterwards missed t.ie only £1 Treasury note he had in his purse. The girl said that after a struggle with Thomson, she picked up her handbag, containing papers, together with a piece of paper which she did not know at the time was a £1 note. Thomson denied that there was a struggle.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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176MAN AND SEASIDE GIRL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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