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I was traveling not long ago with a
National Hockey League team, and the boys,
on their way back home after a hard game,
were having breakfast in the diner.
One player had ordered a full double cut
of ham, which is quite a lot of ham, a few
poached eggs, and coffee, this being preceded
by orange juice and cereal, and the other boys were twitting him
on what they seemed to think was a prodigious appetite ,
They should have seen the late Harry Mummery tuck in the
provender. That was something to talk about, Harry was a big
fellow, weighing about 265 pounds when in condition, a great
chunk of man, who played for the Quebec Bulldogs when they
were Stanley Cup winners, later with Canadiens and Hamilton.
When he reported to Canadlens his first season With that club
he brought along his meal tabs from the diner, en route. The club
in those days paid for such meals. Ile 'handed the bulky packet
over to the lute George Kennedy, who then owned the Montreal
club, for inspection. George went through thelist carefully, tree
cocked a rather quizzical eye at Mummery and enquired: "1)o you
keep eats?"
"Why no," said the surprised Mummery, "I don't own a cat."
"Then" thundered Kennedy "who drank all this cream?"
"Why, I did" answered Mummery. "I always drink a' pint of
cream after each mea'. It's an antidote for ulcers. Besides, T like
cream."
1 was walking from the old 1Yestmount rink with Mummery
after a ganle one night. "Would you like a steak?" he asked. "It
would be only.' light snack for two" he added, apologetically, "for
the steak weighs only five pounds."
i asked him where he could get such a steak. "At my boarding-
house" said Harry. "I buy it in the afternoon. After the game, 1
take it to the basement, wash off the coal shovel, cook the steak
in the furnace and wash it down with a pint of cream,"
Not wishing to deprive a hard-working and hungry athlete
of his victuals, I declined the invitation. Not long agu, Frank
Boucher of Rangers told me that on a trip west, they had met
Harry Mummery at a railroad station. kle was a railway engineer.
"Come up to the locomotive" he invited Boucher, "and 1'11 rook
you the finest steak you ever ate over the coals, on a shovel. It's a
5 -pounder, but I have two of them, so we can both eat"
Harry Mummery was the one-man power play in his day. He
could skate with more speed than you expected of such a giant.
When he got the puck, he would wheel off down the ice, brushing
aside all checkers with his great bulk. When he got about 30
feet out, he would throw a cannonading shot at the goaler. If it
went in the net, well and good. But he kept right on going
goalwards in his own powerful fashion, and if the puck bounced
out, Mummery would be right on it, and slam another block -
busting shot. He scored quite a number of goals that way. And
also he knocked many a set of goal -nets right out of their founds.
cions in the process, as he crashed through .
Your comments and suggestions for Phis column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, d/o Calvert House, 431 Yonee Et., Toronto,
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Now On View
Great -great -grandma's ankle-
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granpa's coarse woollen combs
rand a modern strapless bra—
these are to be among the ex-
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seum, a Museum of Costume to
be opened in London in time for
the Coronation,
Nearly twenty-five years ago,
)l8rs. Doris Langley Moore was
given an 1877 ball gown for a
game of charades and found it
50 charming that she became a
specialist on historical costume.
Today she has over 4,000 gar-
ments, nucleus of the new mu-
eeum. They include austere
white linen nighties worn by
Queen Victoria, white embroi-
dered waistcoats once worn by
,the menfolk, and rare embroi-
dered stockings from the naugh-
t/. ninties.
Many,pf the dresses have been
tttecovered in dusty attics and
trunks. Two perfectly preserved
dresses over 150 years old were
found in the cupboard of a house
in South London, the one house
in the entire block to escape
bombing.
Neatly packed, another ex-
quisite eighteenth -century gown
'was recovered from an old deed-
box. An eighteenth -century set
of corsets, and a man's suit in
violet velvet are other show
items. A set of Coronation robes
is at present on show in America,
earning dollars to help pay for
museum equipment. Some dress-
es are too fragile to travel. When
an early nineteenth-century
dress was lent to the Brighton
Regency Festival, it fell to
pieces after being exposed to
sea air.
Have you any interesting old
clothes to spare? The museum
wants long-trousered sailor suits
that little boys used to wear in
the early 1920s, and the "straight
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When Fourteen Judges
Couldn't Agree
The trial of William Joyce
(Lord Haw -Haw) aroused great
public interest because of what
everyone in England knew about
.him. But it was not the notor-
iety of the man, or the details
of his offences, or the punishment
awarded to traitors, that made
the case memorable in legal his-
tory.
It was the peculiar combin-
ation of circumstances affecting
his status, which had never oc-
curred in exactly the same way
before, and on which his judges
had to decide before he could.
be condemned. Rex versus Joyce
will be a leading text -book case
long after public memory of Lord
Haw-haw has faded.
If you want an example of how
our law really works, go to the
other extreme, and consider the
case of a man named Ashwell,
There was no drama there, un-
less the triviality of the whole
affair can be thought of as turn-
ing the law into farce, yet the
dispute was a very fine one, and
the result a very close thing.
And it affects the property and
freedom of many people.
It happened in 1885, when Ash-
well, being hard up, applied to a
friend to spare him a shilling.
Gold was currency in those days,
and there was little difference in
size and feel between a sovereign
and a shilling. Anyway, the
friend, agreeing te , the request,
made a mistake and handed over
the gold coin.
Ashwell himself did not find
out what happened until later,
when he came to look at the gift
in a good light, and then, instead
of going back honestly and de-
claring the error, applied the
whole amount to his own needs.
As a result, in due course he
found himself arraigned before
a jury on a charge of stealing
nineteen shillings, and after legal
directions from the judge, the
jury convicted him.
There was no Court of Crim-
inal Appeal in those days, but
where tricky points of law were
in doubt, it was possible to have
a trial reviewed. In this case no
less than fourteen judges sat,
for thought the facts were not in
dispute at all, it was realized
that the points of law were tricky
indeed.
Theft or Fraud?
The definition of larceny was
the same then as it is now. A
person steals, who without the
consent of the owner, fraudulent-
ly and without a claim of right
made in good faith; takes and
carries away anything capable of
being stolen, with intent at the
time of such taking permanently
to deprive the owner. thereof.
How, argued appellant's coun-
sel, can that definition fit the con-
duct of Ashwell? Admit, if you
like, that the owner of the sov-
ereign gave no consent to its be-
ing taken, admit that Ashwell
acted fraudulently and without
claim of right, but the case must
still break down over his intent
at the time of taking.
For at that moment he, too,
thought the sovereign was a
shilling,and was perfectly in-
nocent. No amount of fraud,
occurring later, could alter his
state 61 mind at the time which
the law said was the material
one.
Victory for Sense
Oh, said the Crown lawyers(
but here we must understand the
time of taking to be not the time
of the physical handing over of
the coin, but the moment when
he discovered the mistake and
decided to keep the whole twen-
ty shillings for himself. We can-
not tell exactly when that mo-
ment was, but we can deduce
with absolute certainty that it
must have existed. And it was
then that Ashwell broke the law
and became guilty of larceny.
At this point another consider-
ation came in. It is a broad prin-
ciple of penal law that judges
must not read into any enact-
ment, to the disadvantage of ac-
cused, more than the words that
are actually there.
The Common Law can be con-
strued to fit the different circum-
stances of different cases, but
statutes are there in black and
white, and must be taken to mean
actually what they say.
The Larceny Act said there
must be a guilty intent "at the
time of taking," and the time of
taking, in the ordinary meaning
of words, was the time when the
money passed from one hand to
another.
So the argument went back
and forth, and in the end the
judges rose equally divided, sev-
en on one side and seven on the
other. Unluckily for Ashwell, it
needed a majority to reverse the
affirmative act of conviction, so
he remained guilty.
Taken all round, it was a victory
for common sense, but it was
only achieved by making the law
look slightly ridiculous. Four-
teen of the queen's judges had
listened for hours to a case in-
volving a few shillings, and fin-
ally had not been able to agree
amongst themselves.
And yet I don't know. Each
of the fourteen judges was acting
according to his oath and his
conscience.
It would have been all the
same if ten thousand pounds had
been taken, instead of less than
one. And as for making the law
look ridiculous, no doubt the
Bench were conscious of that, too.
If so, there is something rather
magnificent about their scorn
for appearances. Only a system
f ended ran afford to feel ebsurb.
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