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Updated: May 2, 2025

But contrast the pitifully tame way in which the same event is written up in England. Here it is: SUBURBAN ITEM "Yesterday at the police court of Surbiton-on-Thames Mary Forrester, a servant in the employ of Mr. S. Bung was taken into custody on a charge of having put a noxious preparation, possibly poison, into the coffee of her employer's family. The young woman was remanded for a week."

Stephen Leacock - My Discovery of England