I 've nothing to do with what he may or may not have taken. Why did you resist the police in the execution of their duty?
JONES. It war n't their duty to take my wife, a respectable woman, that 'ad n't done nothing.
MAGISTRATE. But I say it was. What made you strike the officer a blow?
JONES. Any man would a struck 'im a blow. I'd strike 'im again, I would.
MAGISTRATE. You are not making your case any better by violence.
How do you suppose we could get on if everybody behaved like you?
JONES. [Leaning forward, earnestly.] Well, wot, about 'er; who's to make up to 'er for this? Who's to give 'er back 'er good name?
MRS. JONES. Your Worship, it's the children that's preying on his mind, because of course I 've lost my work. And I've had to find another room owing to the scandal.
MAGISTRATE. Yes, yes, I know—but if he had n't acted like this nobody would have suffered.
JONES. [Glaring round at JACK.] I 've done no worse than wot 'e 'as. Wot I want to know is wot 's goin' to be done to 'im.
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