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Behold, his Fame has Gone Forth
[Welland Telegraph, 4 December 1891]
Everybody who has ever been in Welland knows Magistrate Hellems, and everybody who meets him has a good word for him, unless, perchance, a hopeless evil-doer who chances to fall foul of him. To the “bad man” he is a terror. His rough and unkempt exterior is only the covering of a warm and generous heart. The boys know this, and are ever ready to take advantage of it. Some little time ago it was learned that he intended paying the barber a visit. Mr. Tonsorial was taken into confidence and a plot was hatched which was carried out and caused a suppressed smile all over the town. He got into the barber’s chair, one side of his head had been shorn of its graceful load of flowing locks when the barber was called out. The latter evidently forgot about his customer until his patience was worn out, and when he came back to the shop the magistrate, half shaven, was very angry, and if there had been any charge standing against the barber just then he would have got the time. When the story leaked out, of course, everybody was amused.-St. Catharines Standard.
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