SHIRKERS' FUNK-HOLE
UNDERGROUND CAVE FOR HIDING ABSENTEES. Charged with keeping an underground chamber t'ov harbouring Army nbsentees, George Edward Barker, if- cycle-shop-keeper, was fined £b, or twenty-six days' imprisonment, at Bristol, recently. Two detectives said that Barker's premises were on the. south sido of Bristol, where tho soil rested on'red stone. "Wooden steps were found in the side of a dry well. From this a passage had been cut leading to a chamber 6ft. square, carved in the sandstone. The place was connected with the cycle-shop by an electric bell. When two absentees were being searched for the detectives approached Barker, who refused to givo any information, and said: "The Government and the Army can go to ." The men had never been found. Barker doiiied having harboured anybody.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 6
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128SHIRKERS' FUNK-HOLE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 6
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