A Borough Councillor Punished for Blasphemy.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Mabton, This Day. In the Magistrates Court to-day Thomas Armstrong, a member of the Marton Borough Council, was sentenced to fourteen days hard labor tor using profane language in a public place. The offence consisted in saying " Christ was a bastard" in answer to something said by a Salvation Army speaker in the street. Counsel gave notice of appeal and bail was allowed £io.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 320, 22 May 1894, Page 2
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73A Borough Councillor Punished for Blasphemy. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 320, 22 May 1894, Page 2
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