GIRL DRESSED AS BOY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1925, Page 4

GIRL DRESSED AS BOY

DETECTIVES EXCITING CHASE. WANGANUI, Nov. G. An exciting episode at Aramolio on Wednesday furnished all the ingredients lor a thrilling moving picture. The prncipals in the drama were a girl, fleet of foot and dressed in boy’s clothes, and Detectives Gourlev and llevell. The episode really began a few days ago when a wayward girl, after some extraordinary adventures, came into the hands of the Wanganui police, and the Magistrate decided that she should be sent to a home at Christchurch. It was with surprising suddenness that the chase developed. What appeared to he a slim young man made a sudden dive away from the platfom and led in a race that tried the pursuers sorely. Detective llevell cadet up all his athletic powers and tried t< keep his quarry in sight, while Detec tive Gourlev, who does not specialist in marathons, engaged a nearby motor car and took the most promising route The chase led round several corner until there was finally a corner will a clear field ahead. Defective llevell then made a scare in a neighbouring churchyard and hid den beneath a treo the fugitive wa located. The girl, who was dressed in youth’s suit and with a cap over he shingled locks, had to the time the dc teotives sighted her, passed withou difficulty for a. good-looking hoy. It appears that after her escape froi the 1 receiving home on r l uesday even ing the girl engaged a taxi and join neyed to West mere, where she success fully imposed on a well-known liiemhe of the Farmers’ I'nion, in fact so sue eessfully that she departed next morn ing with £0 in her possession. >Sh next purchased a suit of hoy’s clot bin in the city and had evidently mad preparations for getting well away Inn Wanganui. She informed the polit after her capLurc that she intended t get to Auckland where she was hope fill of being able to work her way ovc to Sydney on one of the iiiter-colonii steamers as a brass boy.