A “Novel” Excuse
“Surely you don’t expect me to believe' that,” said the Magistrate, Mr F. F. Reid, after listening to an explanation by a young man who was chai’ged in . the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch with riding a bicycle without a light and with giving a wrong name to the traffic inspector who stopped him. In answer to the later charge, the defendant said: “The fact is, I was reading a novel that day and the name of one of the characters kept drumming into my head. That’s why I gave the name to the inspector.” “That will cost you 3/-,” said the Magistrate.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 6
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105A “Novel” Excuse Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 10, 26 March 1947, Page 6
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