FAIR AND FASHIONABLE

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 14

FAIR AND FASHIONABLE

WANTED MAN'S MASQUERADE ARRESTED IN WOMAN'S ATTIRE [Per tINTTBn Press Association.] • ■ AUCKLAND, September 26. An hotel guest who booked in to an Auckland hotel yesterday as Miss Patricia ■ , with flaxen hair and* wearing a smart brown costume, highheeled shoes, and the etceteras of the smartly-dressed woman, was arrested this morning, apd it is understood that at the police station later changed into male attire. The young man wiU appear in the Police Court on Monday on a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use at Wanganui a motor cat; valued at £230. . , It is understood that the guest arrived at the hotel carrying a bunch of stooping freesias. Subsequently he kept the door of the bedroom locked. This morning the housemaid' entered by using a master key. The guest was absent, but parts of the room were covered with Later Detectives Hayes and Wilson inquired of the proprietor if he had seen signs of a young man masquerading as a woman. He replied: “Yes, I think I can take you to ‘ her ’ right away. ’ When the detectives approached “ her ”on the back stairs, asking Ar« you Miss Patricia .the reply came in a somewhat deep voice: res, I am.’’ - . After inquiries in the room an arrest was made, and the prisoner left the hotel -dressed as a woman.