They Detained the Vicar
k m » m >J L How a vicar was inadvertently detained during a betting raid was told at Broxton (Cheshire). Police officers raided the village post office at Hargrave on the day of tho Cambridgeshire. While they made a search, all the callers, including the Vicar of Hargrave, Rev. S. G. A. Preston, and the village schoolmistress, were detained. Sergeant Kettle said that while the search was in progress six children were detained. The schoolmistress came to take' them back to school and she was detained. Later the Vicar arrived to see what was happening, and he was also detained. . A charge of using the premises for the purpose of betting against Miss Louisa Madley, the post; mistress, was dismissed. XJnpatriotic Orchestra Leader: . "I had to let Joe go." * "Why?" "Oh, he kept his hat on his trombone during the 'Star Spangled Banner.' " $> ' $> $> S> History Examination Hash "1066 is the date of the fall of the empire. " "John Milton 's writings are very good for any person who is blind." . "The Home Rule question means immigration." - * "The president declared that if the people did not believe as he wanted them to, he would put them on the diet of worms."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 12
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204They Detained the Vicar Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 12
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