Otaki Man Pleads Guilty As "Peeping Tom"

Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 2

Otaki Man Pleads Guilty As "Peeping Tom"

A' search thfough the streets of Palmerston North "for a "peeping Tom" ended successfully on Saturday- night when a wanted man almost ran into the arms of a constable on duty in €uba Street and was caught after a short chase. 4 The details were outlined to Mr. j feerd, S.M.,' in the Magistrates' Court, Palmerston North, by Senior-Sergeant R. -Audley when Isaac James Kildare, aged 20, farm hand, of Otaki, was admitted to two years' probation on a charge j of being a rogue and a vagabond. Senior-Sergeant Audley said • that Mrs. G. Marshall, of Bourke Street, saw a man in the backyard of her home at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday. She told her husband, and he and their son found defendant crouching at the side of the house and peering in at a bedroom window. Kildare then ran away. Mr. Marshall and his son were in bare feet and were unable to continue the chase for long. They returned to the house, got the car out, and started to search the streets for the intruder. Con-

stable N. McLean, who was on duty in Cuba Street, saw defendant dash out of a side street and after a short chase, apprehended him. Kildare, who pleaded guilty, was granted probation under the conditions that he remained on farm work and kept away from towns.