MAN VICTIMISED

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1929, Page 3

MAN VICTIMISED

: ; by MAORI GIRL. ' • - . • 7 / - * # >- . (By Telegraph—Press Association) DANNEVIRKE, September 19 .f^; A Maori maid, wandering round t|jV‘ streets late at night, got a chivalrous young married man into the clutches oF the police by a subtle ruse. After getting him to escort her to the locality in which she is said to reside, she , asked her companion to go into a hbhse at 4 a.m. and turn on the electric so that she would not .make a noise oiT' entering whilst' befuddled with liquor. The man discarded his boots, and he' entered the house of a prominent business man, Mr T. Buelick. Pandemonium broke loose when he placed* his hand on the face of a • sleeping young woman: ' She'screamed. The than bolt- ■ cd to the dining room, where he'-wtts-’-heninied in by tlie •'household Mil 6‘ ,a and female, anti there waited the arrival of the police in a comfortable chair. It later transpired that the Maori - T girl did not : live on the premises, and '' that'She had adopted this ruse'to get • rid of 'her escort.’" It ' was more effec*- "> tive than she' liad anticipated, as'-- she '-- T

disappeared into the darkness, ..; V 1 Later the man appeared at Court Oil'' 1 a charge of being illegally in the pre- +^‘ mises without intent to commit • a,'- . . - •• * - 4- axis crime. • He was convicted and was ordered to come up for sentence within three months if called upon. -raZ.