They Detained the Vicar

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

They Detained the Vicar

How a vicar was inadvertently detained during a betting raid was told at Broxtou (Cheshire). Police officers raided the village post office at Hargrave on tho day of tho Cambridgeshire. While they made a search, all the callers, including the Vicar of Hargrave, Rev. S. G. A. Preston, and tho village schoolmistress, were detained. Sergeant Kettle said that while the search was in progress six children were detained. The schoolmistress came to take tiiem back to school and she was detained. Later the Vicar arrived to see what was happening, aud he was also detained. A charge of using the premises lor the pur|)Ose of betting against Miss Louisa Madley, the post mistress, was dismissed. Unpatriotic Orchestra Leader: “I had to let Joe go.” “Why?” “Oh, ho kept his hat on his trombone during the *Btar Bpangled Banner.’ ’’ <s>«s> <s> <S> History Examination Hash “10GG is the date of the fall of the empire.” “John Milton’s writings are very good for any person who is blind.” “The Home Ltulo question means im migration.” ‘ ‘The president declared that if the peoplo did not believe as o wanted them to, ho would put them on the diet of worms.”