QUIPS IN COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 2

QUIPS IN COURT

LONDON, November 12. “People, upstairs are supposed to move out as there is an injection order a aims t them.”—Witness at Old-street. *•*#** Woman at Willcsd.cu after being granted a summons against her husband: Will you, please, make it returnable for bearing on a Monday as 1 can get a cheap railway ticket on that day? * « * * Solicitor to woman at ShorerdTfch Country Court: How much does your husband earn? Woman: Now I ask you, would you tell your wife? ******* Counsel at Lambeth County Court: This girl can pay £1 a week as she has nothing to spend her money on. Judge McCleary: Your knowledge of young women must Ik> very limited if you say they have nothing to spend their money on. ****** Clerk at Kingston-on-Thames: Was the prisoner under the influence of drink? Witness: No, sir. He was very drunk. _* * * * . * Prisoner, with So convictions, at the Guildhall, E.C.: I once worked for lo months when I was on probation, hut it made mo ill and I had to give it up. ***** Doctor at Uxibridge, Middlesex: I think the boy needs mother love. Mother: He has had mother love all right. He is always having thrashings. * * * * * * * “I have sat indoors from one weekend to another.”—A man on the dole at North London. • #**** Mr. Macdonald, the Hull magistrate, to hoy: How much have you last by coming here? Boy: I get Is B<l. a day, and I have lost lOd. Mr Macdonald. You are the most honest person I have had in this court for years. I will allow you Is. ***** Landlady complaining of her tenants at North London: I gave them permission to keep one rabbit and now there are 14. ******* Chairman of Southend Bench: If some machine coud lie invented to evaporate women’s tempers it would save the court a lot of trouble. * * * * Nottingham Solicitor: Did you attend the funeral with a black eye? Woman : Yes, my husband put my eye in mourning for the occasion.