Judge — May 22, 1926 — page 26: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

*:Disgusted “T can't vat dis- gusted.” “Your worship.” he — pleaded, “the lady Twas kissing was my wife.” “Your wife?”’—for the bench wes: clearly doubtful—“surely if you are a married couple you have your own house to meet in. Why choose the streets?” The accused knew why. “We cannot find a house in which to live together, so we have to live apart.” The bench communed among itself and the decision was quite obviously unanimous. “Under the circumstances,” pro- claimed the magistrate, “we have decided to be lenient, you are dis- charged.” ‘The prisoner went gleefully out of the dock, and leaving the court, butted into the policeman who had arrested him. “Old boy,” apologized the con- stable, “I’m sorry! I didn't know when T turned my lamp on you in the fog that it was your wife.” “It's fifty-fifty,” said the dis- charged man. “I didn’t either.” —London Mail Newly-married Swain—Yes, darling, before we were married—when fishing, this was the very spot where I used to sit and dream of you. —Passing Show You Never Know y was at the Birmingham police court he appeared. For kissing in the streets of Birmingham is, of course, a terrible offense! The police constable who arrested him was the first witness. Naturally. “Tt half-past nine and foggy,” said he, “when walking down Cor- poration street I see the prisoner and a female person a-kissing.” 1e members of the bench looked round at each other severel) “It would appear to me,” said justice, you have brought on the city of which proud, Have “© was sonorous. It sounded like a previous conviction. Brown—My grandfather has just celebrated his eighty-ninth birth- Indeed it did. But the prisoner had day in America. his say to say. Jones—Celebrated it in America? How? London Opinion comicbooks.com