An Imaginative Youth

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1921, Page 2

An Imaginative Youth

INVENTS STORY OF ASSAULT.

AUCKLAND, June 15 It was reported to the police at Tuakau on Sunday that the previous night a railway cadet, Ellis C. Bowbyes, had been accosted and brutally assaulted on a lonely part of the road between the railway station and the boarding-house at which he lodged. A prompt search of the district was made by the Pukekolie police, and iater Detective-Ser-egant Hammond made enquiries at Tuakau. Not only the scene of the alleged assault but also the story of Bowbyes was closely scrutinised for a clue, and some unexpected discrepancies in the account of the affair.led the detective to concentrate on obtaining confirmation of the story. It was established that one night before Saturday, a resident was accosted at the place concerned, and the matter had been the subject of discussion at Bowbyes’ boardinghouse. Then Bowbyes, a youth of 17 years, was invited to describe minutely the course of the assault he said he had suffered, and to explain how the kicks definitely alleged to have been dealt on his body and a suspected blow from a sandbag had left no mark on him. Under cross-examination and scrutiny the youth failed to sustain bis tale, and he eventually confessed that it was a hoax, suggested by the incident of the other man being accosted and perpetrated because he was nervous of having to pass this part of the road in the dark and in the early hours of the' morning in the course ol his railway duty. In military parlance, the previous incident had “put the wind up him.”

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