EELS FAIR GAME
CLERKENWELL MAGISTRATE’S RULING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 2. On the grouhd that the eel is legally a wild animal and that a person, finding eels at large, is entitled to take them into safe custody, the Clerkenwell Magistrate dismissed a Oharge against a railway employee of stealing from the Euston Station five lbs of eels, valued at 17s Od. The employee found the eels in a space between the permanent way and the platform, near a fishdock.
The Magistrate said: “Maybe accused shotild not have taken the eels, but if yob see an eel wriggling on the highway you certainly are entitled to pick it tip and take it away.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6
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119EELS FAIR GAME Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6
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