SUBTLE RUSE.
GETTING RID OF ESCORT.
Per Press Association. DANNEVIItKE, Sept. 19. A Maori maid wandering round the streets late at night got a chivalrous young married man into the clutches of the police by a subtle ruse. After getting him to escort her to the locality in which sire is said to reside, she asked her companion to go into a house at 4 a.m. and turn on the electric light so that she would not make a noise on entering. The man discarded his boots and entered the house of a prominent business man, Mr i?. Bullick. , , , Pandemonium broke loose when pe placed his hand on the face of a sleeping young woman. She screamed and the man bolted to the dining-room, where he was hemmed in by the house-hold-male and female—and waited the arrival of the police in a comfortable chair. _ . It later transpired that the Maori girl did not live on the premises and had adopted this ruse to get rid of her escort. It was more effective than she had anticipated, as she disappeared into the darkness later. The man appeared in Court on a charge of being illegal}}' on premises without intent to commit a crime, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three months it called upon.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 6
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218SUBTLE RUSE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 6
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