AFTER-DARK PROWLERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 60, 30 March 1943, Page 4

AFTER-DARK PROWLERS

WE have been asked to give publicity to the fact that certain cowardly, weak minded and depraved persons have recently made their unwelcome, appearance in the Borough by spying upon households after daLk, and in some cases actually entering bedrooms and disturbing womenfolk. In some cases little has been said of the incidents but in this connection the police would welcome the fullest co-opera-tion. In practically all known instances, the offenders have been persons of weakened intellect and stamina, who having no control over their appetites and knowing little or no personal discipline have succumbed to the dictates of their own unhealthy minds and seek the cover of darkness to gratify their own sense of morbid curiosity. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they take flight upon observation and seek to cover their own pressing guilt by the cowardly gloom in which they operate. No one need be afraid for their habits brand them as cowards to the core, whose warp ed outlbok is but a reflection of the darkness in which they move. What is wanted is the fullest co-operation of all decent thinking persons to assist in hunting them down and bringing them to the punishment they so richly deserve.