A PARISIAN COMEDY
~ POLICE AND A REVELLER. DELIVERED TO WRONG HOME. London, June 26. A comedy of piquant errors w’as enacted by policemen in the small hours, according to the Paris correspondent of the Times. They picked up a nocturnal reveller and conducted him to an address on an envelope which the inebriate indicated. The porter admitted him, merely grunting, “Encore!” (“Again!”). The man's wife was not surprised, but reproached the police for bringing home her husband drunk. “He might as well have spent the night at the police station!” she remarked. The police bundled him into the room, where he retired to bed. On awakening in the morning the woman was horrified to discover that the man was not her husband, but a stranger. She indignantly expostulated with the police, pointing out the compromising situation which would have arisen if her husband had returned. The police reassured her by intimating that her husband had been arrested over-night for being drunk, and was still in the lock-up.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19220710.2.69
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1922, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
167A PARISIAN COMEDY Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1922, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in