In a statement to the police, added the solicitor, Sowter said that as he had not taken sufficient money to pay expenses recently he had supplemented his income by accepting commissions from friends to obtain photo graphic material of a type he had boped never to have touched. He had occasionally obtained films to entertain selected friends in his studio.
Mr. Knight informed the magistrate that in July, 1935, Sowter was ordered to pay £5 5s costs after obscene pictures had been produced in Court and ordered to be destroyed Now, apparently, he was trading in a worse form than before.
The magistrate, ordering the destruction of prints, books and films, said he exempted some of the films because in his view they bore the merit of being artistic works.
The defendant, gave an undertaking not to show them, except to decent people.
Old Home Town "An Eye for Sale"
"Home!" whispered Williams. Home! His face was as radiant as that of a little boy on Christmas morning. His eyes devoured every thing as the train crept toward the platform, He even noticed the faded sign on the side of the station.
dale," it said.
"I used to hit that very sign with stones," he murmured, "Used to hit He turned to the other man, "Forgive me for getting sentimental like this," he said, "I'm a little overcome by it all. Only one thing keeps it from being complete, And thats "Ever hear from her again?" asked the other man.
Williams shook his head.
"Nope." He sighed. "Never, She's either married or dead, I guess.
The train stopped: G. Franklin Williams stood up, "Here." he said, "let's get out on the other side of the train, so tha: nobody will see us. Everybody seems busy today, celebrating the county fair—but you never can tell about these railroad detectives.
And the two tramps jumped from the freight car, and walked rapidly away.
A financially embarrassed offered in the Personal advert column of the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" to sell one of his eyes. His announcement reads:
Married man. financially desperate, will sacrifice sight one eye. Invites offers for healthy cornea.
The cornea is the thin skin covering the pupil of the eye. By the operation of cornea grafting, sight has been restored to many people in ecent years.
l be recalled that Datas, ihe y man, sold his head à few ago to four American doctors who were anxious to study the brain that has such remarkable powers of But Datas outlived the doctors, and is now 62.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.