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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1922, Page 4

YOUTH’S SEAS 11 Alt PRA NK. 'LONDON, Sept. 23. A. slim-lad of 17, Herbert Young, who I tad dressed in the clothes of a village schoolmistress and masque'rnd:d at the seaside and other places, appeared at the Doncaster AA’cst Riding Court yes'erday charged with ;.}:eft. His excuse was that he thought he would more readily obtain employment as a girl. Young was employed "as a railway porter, arid took to the station tlie luggage of Miss Allen Louise Hobber, sihoohnis 1 ress, Clayton, near Doncas- - ter. when she went on holiday. Afterj wards lie broke into her house and, s'olo a number of articles of clothing, i Miss Hobber told the court that ! she missed a Gladstone bag, night;dress, straw hat. cotton frock, cor-. i sets, apron, pair of combinations, : chain heads, Panama hat, net blouse, I silk overall, underskirt-, flair' of knickers, silk camisole, silk stockings, , i and a silk jumper. j When arrested at his mother’s home jat Rairu li.fi'o-streel, Seib.v, Young ; said, "I did it to go’ some clothing, J so that I could dress as a girl to get ! work.” He further told the constable that he had been to Whitby and had j there masqueraded as a girl in tlie i s’,Jen clothes, and that he had returned from AYhitby to Selby disguised as a girl. Asked by the magistrates to explain his conduct he replied, “I got fed up with living at Clayton. ’ Relieving Ins extraordinary conduct to he- a silly boyish freak, the magisj (rates bound him over in £-> to he of . good behaviour for a year.