The Archive · 1939

Heard in Court

Woman: I wrote to my husband asking for money, and he replied saying he must have a receipt first, Witness at Highgate: She called me some lovely language, language too lovely to repeat, Motorist: I know there was a car behind me, because when I braked it crashed into my rear.

Counset at Westminster County Court: Al} the buses now have one step only.

Judge Dumas: Like modern dancing.

Solicitor: Did the cyclist speak to the woman motorist?

Witness: I think he must have done because the car back-fired.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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