“HAIRMANIA”
COLLECTOR OF TRESSES GAOLED When John David Hamilton. 34. a barman with various aliases, pleaded guilty at the Mansion House Police Court to assaulting Rose Barker, 19. of Spitalfields. by cutting off her hair on top of an omnibus, it was said that there were six previous convictions against him for similar offences. He had only been out of prison eleven days after serving a sentence of six months’ hard labour for cutting the hair of two girls. In the case of Miss Barker, it was said he sat behind her with a newspaper spread out on his knees and with a pair of scissors clipped off about eight inches of the girl’s plai:. Alderman Knill sentenced him to six months’ hard labour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 12
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124“HAIRMANIA” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 12
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