UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1893, 22 October 1918, Page 4

UNWELCOME ATTENTIONS.

INFATUATION FOR YOUNG

WOMAN,

A case of a peculiar nature was heard by Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, when a man named Gordon Barrett was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond, lie having been found by night on premises in Fairley Terrace. It appeared that for a long lime past Barrett, who is 34 years of age, has been “haunting” —to use a term applied by the magistrate —a particular house in Fairley Terrace, Kelburn, He frequented the locality late at night, and became such a nuisance that the police were informed. The object of his attentions was a-young woman who resided in the house, but who wits in no manner inclined to return or give encouragement to his strange infatuation. In the witness box the young woman stated that the accused had first spoken to her Jive years ago, but she regarded him practically as a stranger, and resented Ids unwelcome at tent ions. Constable Graham said that shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday night he discovered the man secreted at the hack of the house among some limber and hushes. He was minus his boots and hat, and when accosted by the constable remarked, ‘‘lt seems you are a policeman, so the game is up.” His Worship said he did not think the man’s mind was normal. Ho convicted accused, but ordered that he should be detained for a week for medical observation and report.