THE J P's JOB

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13933, 11 July 1919, Page 4

THE J P's JOB

Iti w-ae deiair from sitaiteanKinte made ! at Totitenham Police Couirt, London', /thalfa the oalls oni a justice of tino peaieie for advkei a.re hy m> means confined to the hour off 1 two he spends at a police couitftl. | He holdJsi unofffcdal "courts" in tlhe eiyeningi at horae, and if he is well known, he may 'haivei ten tibi twenity cialleirs during ani &? meaning, either for his signiaibure to am -affiidiaviti to cmtfioni a refraiotioiry child, <xc to maike peiaoei betweeni husbiand and wife. Mr R. Greeni, a Tottenham miaigisitirate, when; sititing alt the policie court, w'aa asked iboi saign 'a paip<ir, amd hie remarked tihat if he did noltl it would be ome of a. niumiber of piaipers he would be iaisked toi sign: when he aririved homiei aib might. Mr G. D> Cornish:, amoither justtice, had before ham ai young! mamed oouplei who could Wot agiree. He talked to husbandl and Wife in tuam, and the twbi leifiti the countl reconciled. Thjemi he reniaaikied 1 tthat.he had oonciiled quite ai niuimibeir of oouip" 1./ lately. The) wife would call at; V .*■ housie and, oomipilaiin. He sent for ihe husband, and tha differttnee?; were; nmdte up.