A RASH WAGER.
A. case ww brought before the Lei* cester magistrate in which * shoe riret* ter wm charged under the following circumstancesli seems that he made a bet with his companions that he would shake handi with the Princess of Wales,, a&d,« being, intoxicated, seemed evidently determined to win his wager. Accordingly, on Boytf carriage pjwsing along; the principal thoroughfare on its way to 1 the opening of the Abbey Park, the nan darted forward, and before he could be (topped attempted to seize the hand of Her Royal Highness, who pushed his hood away with her parasol.; Thereupon a trooper of the Yeomiinty Escort, rode up and struck the nitn with tiqjAJn . his sword. \ He/ either fell www. ">■ knocked down under the horses'feeV but happily escaped uninjured. He j liwaanow:charged with being drunk and' ' disorderly, end committed for siren days with hard labor. -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 16 September 1882, Page 2
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145A RASH WAGER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 16 September 1882, Page 2
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