Tlio “dress-ripper’ is lreappearing •it the Wellington Opera House at great expense—to his or her victims. This demented -being, whose particular mania consists in cutting ladies’ dresses and cloaks in the going-in and coming-out crowds at the Opera House, operated during the llast sea-. Sou of tlio Julius Knight Company. Since,then this person's renson has apparently returned, but a relapse lias occurred, as on a recent- evening a. young girl, who occupied a seat in the stalls, had her coat cut badly, up the hack in such >a ■manner as to leave no doubt that it was done maliciously. by someone using a sharpened instrument. -The detectives have for months been on the lookout for the mischievous person who finds amusement in the manner described, hut so far admit timmstdves beaten,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2326, 20 October 1908, Page 5
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131Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2326, 20 October 1908, Page 5
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