Part of the evidence taken in the Police Court, in the trial of two boys, Albert Home (16) and James Hopkins (16).
Mr. Carter, J.P. “Your name?”
1st Witness—a boy scout. “Tom Appleby, sir.”
Mr. C. “Age?”
1st W. “Fourteen-a-half, sir.”
Mr. C. “Tell the Court exactly what you were doing on Thursday afternoon.”
1st W. “Me and my patrol were doing Spider and Fly—that’s a scout game, sir—down below Barley’s Farm, and I was creeping through the trees so as not to make no noise when I heard somebody laugh, and when I crawls nearer I sees the—the prisoners sitting on the bank of Barley’s duck pond.”
Mr. C. “Could you see exactly what they were doing?”
1st W. “Yes, sir. The short one had hold of a frog by the back legs, and the tall one had a bicycle pump, and he put the connection down the frog’s throat, and was blowin’ him up with the bicycle pump.”
Mr. C. “Are you quite certain of this?”