AMERICAN'S WAGER
SHAKES HANDS WITH DUCHESS
SUBMITS TO ARREST
LONDON, 9th November,
For a wager a well-dressed American visitor slipped through a police cordon at Southampton to-day and shook hands with the Duchess of York.
The Duke and Duchess were being bidden farewell by the Mayor and other officials after a visit to the city when the incident occurred.
■• The young man stepped back .after he had shaken the Duchess's hand • and shouted, "I have won." He submitted quietly, to arrest, and was marched to the police station," where he explained that he had done it for a wager. Later the young man was released without his identity being- disclosed, but the "News-Chronicle" says Ms name is J. Isaac.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 13
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119AMERICAN'S WAGER Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 13
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