Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 16:36:25 GMT
A REAL ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR.
At the Fleetwood Police Court, on Wednesday, Thomas Selby, of Kensington, London, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. - P.S. Purcell said the man was drunk and behaving like a madman at Thornton the previous day. He did not think the man was altogether right. He had £5 10s. 6d. in his possession, and had drawn £3 from the bank only last week. It appeared he had served at the front under Captain Ansted, of Rossall, and had been given work at Rossall, but he could not be kept at it. Superintendent Ormerod said he had examined prisoner, and he appeared to be a real absent-minded beggar.
He could answer questions put to him all right, but he was absent-minded, and did not reply for some time after the questions had been asked. - The Chairman of the Bench said prisoner was a regular mystery to the Court, and they would remand him for a few days for the police to bring him round. - Superintendent Ormerod said the prisoner would have any sort of food he fancied.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 30 January 1902)
At the Fleetwood Police Court, on Wednesday, Thomas Selby, of Kensington, London, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly. - P.S. Purcell said the man was drunk and behaving like a madman at Thornton the previous day. He did not think the man was altogether right. He had £5 10s. 6d. in his possession, and had drawn £3 from the bank only last week. It appeared he had served at the front under Captain Ansted, of Rossall, and had been given work at Rossall, but he could not be kept at it. Superintendent Ormerod said he had examined prisoner, and he appeared to be a real absent-minded beggar.
He could answer questions put to him all right, but he was absent-minded, and did not reply for some time after the questions had been asked. - The Chairman of the Bench said prisoner was a regular mystery to the Court, and they would remand him for a few days for the police to bring him round. - Superintendent Ormerod said the prisoner would have any sort of food he fancied.
(Lancashire Daily Post, 30 January 1902)