A SEMI-LUNATIC’S SPORT.
The Westport Times says:— Quite a scare has been caused in town, especially amongst nervous ■people, by the extraordinary behaviour of one or more mysterious individuals. He or they appear to devote the hours of darkness to prowling about residences in stealthy style and looking through windows. The other night a stalwart young man got a start by the appearance through his bedroom window of an individual who seized the sleeper by the leg. A masked man called at another residence during daylight and gibbered about a funeral. Two gentlemen whose business take them out late at night were assailed with missiles. Various stories are current of the doings of the fellow, who must at least be a semi-lunatic. There may be a good deal of exaggeration in the reports current, but there is enough solid information to prove that some individual is amusing himself in a dangerous fashion—dangerous to himself and probably to others, for several persons living iu the back parts of the town now carry revolvers, and in several households loaded guns are kept handy.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 400, 20 June 1908, Page 4
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181A SEMI-LUNATIC’S SPORT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 400, 20 June 1908, Page 4
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