DEAF MUTE’S “IDEAL JOB”
\ PNEUMATIC DRILLER LONDON, July. 1. —Samuel Thomas Davis, a 27-year-old deaf mute, was stated by counsel at Somerset quarter sessions, Taunton, to be in a job “for which Nature seemed to have fitted him.’’ He was discharged after pleading not guilty to housebreaking and stealing 14s and two packets of cigarettes..
Com use l l'cr the defence said -that the court might be interested to know that until recently Davis’ affliction debarred him from following a regular occupation. Now, fortunately, lie had a. job at a. good wage, for which Nature seemed to have fitted him. <; He work,s one of those appallingly noisy pneumatic drills on the roads,” sail qounsel. “I think he inojSt contented workman in England, because.he does hot hear,the noise.”
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 1
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127DEAF MUTE’S “IDEAL JOB” Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 1
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