Mrs. Snooker and the little Snookerites
The People – Sunday 29 January 1905
We arranged our plans well. Our shock was to take place on the night of Monday week, when Mrs. Snooker and the little Snookerites would be spending a fortnight at their aunt’s so Charley Brown told us. We were to suddenly, when Snooker had retired to rest, fly in the house, break a window, pull the bell out, twist the knocker, howl out ‘Fire,’ let off a hand grenade, and raise Cain generally. The eventual night arrived. We all crawled round at midnight to the house in sections, and at the words, ‘Let her go!’ we went for Snooker’s house.