IN WOMAN’S GUISE

Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 6

IN WOMAN’S GUISE

CONGREGATIONAL MINISTER TESTING ENGLAND'S HMUTY DRAMATIC EXPOSURE. LONDON, September 18. (Received September 19, at 10 a.m.) Tlio mystery of a Oft woman, who lias been wandering around tbe country lanes of South England for the past twelve months, dressed in white shoes and stockings, black skirt, red hat and veil, often frightening women and c'n; dren, was dramatically solved la*o lest night, when she was seized and unmasked at Curry Rivcll, Somerset, by the local innkeeper. The masquerader turned out to be the Rev. A. H. Read,a Congregational minister, who refused to comment till this morning, when he summoned a largo meeting of the townspeople and explained that he desired to test the social morality and the Englishman’s attitude towards women. He did not consider that he had done any harm. On the contrary, lie had found that tho men of England were wonderfuliv chivalrous. Ho would raise his hat to an Englishman. He apologised to everyone, and hoped that he would bo forgiven this spasm of folly.