SIDE-SHOW RUMPUS
BURMESE CONJURER FINED
<B) leieWH&h l'i«w .A«*M»iar.ifir» i
BLENHEIM, This, Day,
An attempt to expose the ' Indian rope trick j while a side-show was in progress on the Picton foreshore during the holidays resulted in the appearance in the Police Court at Picton this morning, of Jedda Kreshna, a Burmese, side-show man, on a charge of assaulting Trevor Francis Probyn, a chauffeur, of Napier. The police stated that during the progress of the performance Probyn professed to 'know how the illusion was performed and Kreshna, fearing that it would be exposed, requested him to be a sport and keep quiet. Subsequently the Burmese became aware of someone interfering with his apparatus at the rear of-the tent and rushing out saw Probyn in a group and struck him a blow in the groin. Probyn was admitted to hospital with symptoms of a serious injury which late* transpired to be only slight. Meanwhile another man altogether confessed to having interfered with the side-show equipment. In view of the circumstances Kreshna was fined the nominal amount of 10*.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381229.2.108
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 11
Word Count
177SIDE-SHOW RUMPUS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in