NEWS AND NOTES.
The five biggest members of a Fat Men’s Club in Berlin boast an aggregate weight of nearly a ton. A minimum weight of 25 stones is requited for membership, and the heaviest member passes this mark bv six stones.
When four Gateshead girls were charged with shoplifting, their relatives said they were “dancing mad.” A police witness statel that an hour after their arrest they were all dancing the Charleston in their cell. Michael-Joseph Shannon, a young man with several previous convictions was charged at Dunedin with having secreted tobacco in the Dunedin prison. Shannon was also charged with the theft of nine bottles of whisky, a glass, cigarettes of the value of £3, and £3 in money, the property of Ellen Catherine Metcalf. Both charges were admitted. Accused was released from prison on April 15th, after serving a sentence for theft. That evening he went to the back of the prison and put some cigarettes through the window evidently for the purpose of supplying a prisoner. On the first chayge accused was fined £2 and 10/- costs in default of seven days’ imprisonment. On the second he was sentenced to three months’ hard labour.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3650, 11 June 1927, Page 4
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198NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3650, 11 June 1927, Page 4
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