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Post by BereniceUK on Mar 28, 2017 13:26:29 GMT
A foolish war fever freak of a mill-hand named Edward Duffy brought him before the Bradford Bench, charged with wounding his wife. He was playing with a bayonet, saying : "I am British ; you women are Boers ; this is a bayonet charge." He lunged towards his wife, holding the bayonet on the end of a stick, in play, but bayoneted her in reality, the weapon penetrating her side 1in., causing her to faint from loss of blood, and necessitating her removal to infirmary.
(Bootle Times, 27 January 1900)
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