THE SEAMY SIDE

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 14 (Supplement)

THE SEAMY SIDE

MARGARET’S TEETH MARKS. TALES TOLD TO MAGISTRATE (By R. E. Corder, in the London Daily Mail.) Selling flowers has not had a sweetening influence on the temper of .Margaret, who must he written down as a shrew and an enemy of the police. Margaret does not measure five feet in height, but three policemen were needed to take her to the police station and one of them bore her teeth marks in his wrist.

She cheeked the police and she cheeked the magistrate, and she snapped at her husband who accompanied her in the dock.

Her husband, a big, good-natured sort of man who had never been in trouble before, whispered to Margaret to ”Shut up,” “Cut it out,” or “Go easy.”

But she would go into the witnessbox and leil Sir Chartres Biron that he wasn’t there when she was arrested for being drunk and therefore lie knew nothing about it. And she would say that the constables had sat up all night faking their evidence.

Tlie magistrate gave Margaret all (lie rope she asked for, and then, learning that she had already served 28 days for assaulting tlie police, sent her to prison for four months with hard labour.

Margaret's husband, who had nothing to say for liiinsclf, was fined 10s Gd, and a woman friend of Margaret at tlie back of the court said a lot of things, hut not with flowers. She and Margaret left the court simultaneously by different doors.

George and John should he introduced to eacli other. Both were more sinned against than sinning. George arrived home from work expecting to find a welcome from his wife and an appetising tea. Instead lie found an empty table and the children in bed.

lie waited at home until 10 o’clock and then sought his wife, whom he found in bad company, as lie bitterly complained, smoking a cigarette. He cleared out the bad company and extinguished the cigarette, which was the last draw. * * * * John from the provinces gave some coppers lo a beggar, who angrily demanded, “is this all you have got?” and stole John’s presentation watch. Everybody was sorry for George and John, who were bound over, one lamenting Ihe lapse of ids wife and the other the loss of his watch. # * $ jJ; Candidate (to householder) : "I assure you, sir, .that if your neighbours in this constituency return me Householder (rather pre-occupied): “I should be surprised, sir. My neighbours seldom return anything.”