STIFFKEY RECTOR
MR DAVIDSON OUT OF GAOL
LONDON, August 26,
The ex-rector of 'S.ti'ffkey, Mr Harold Davidson, returned to Blackpool Lancashire after serving nine days’ in Walton Gaol for debt. He travelled from , Liverpool by taxi, hiit it bad been reported that he was to arrive at one of the stations, and a crowd gathered outside. A band had gone there to give the ex-rector a welcome, but the police moved them on. The ex-rector went'in his taxi to tliq station, but tlie. police, would not permit 'him to alight there. He went to the goods station, where a small kridt of people cheered him as he got out of -his taxi. A negress, dressed in nritive costume, placed -around ' his shoulders a garland of roses.
The ex-rector, an hotel chef in his white smock and cap, and the negress got into an open landau through the streets. Then."Mr Davidson returned to the exhibition, where he was on show in a barrel. “I would not have missed my experience 'of prison for anything,”; Mr Davidson said. “The only complaint I have to make is that I was not allowed to smoke my cigars.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 6
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193STIFFKEY RECTOR Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 6
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