GERMAN SHELLS AS RELICS
LAWSUIT OVER A HARTLEPOOL. FRAGMENT. London, February 25. A curious case was heard at West Hartlepool Court. Plaintiff claimed that he found in a gutter of a house a piece of a German shell, fired during the raid', weighing 47 pounds, which the defendant unlawfully took from him. Defendant's story was that he was the agent of the house .struck by the shell, and as the tenant has renounced his title t<> it, the piece of shell in dispute is his. The sum of £20 had been offered for it as a relic. The Judge characterised the action as a ridioulous one. He would not give a halfpenny for the shell; anyone offering £20 for it was a fool. J.f Germans came again shells would be so common that the people would not bother to pick them up. - Plaintiff's sojicitor stated there was a market for shell fragments at 10s. Judgment was given for defendant.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2396, 27 February 1915, Page 7
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159GERMAN SHELLS AS RELICS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2396, 27 February 1915, Page 7
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