PEEPING TOM

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 165, 31 March 1939, Page 4

PEEPING TOM

■ ; . ; .A/., ; '"AN " UNLUCKY PROWL - ’ ___ GOT TWO HEFTY KICKS,

A New Plymouth Peeping Tom got mote than lie bargained lor the other .night. All he received for prowling round in his stockinged feet was two hefty kicks, badly scratched face and hands, and torn clothes when he tried to dive through a hedge. For some time a, resident of CutfielcV road had been puzzled by a strange hole in his hedge, and the not infrequent discovery of footprints in the garden. .. One night lie and his wife were preparing for bed when he liappend to glance at the window: aridl saw a, flash of white hurriedly drew back out of sight.' i -ThCi householder . rushed cut just in tijnepb>jsee the ihr trader cianyl'ing cruder, the hedge. The latter went a' good deal faster when,, two solid kicks —and/ the householders still had his hoots'-An-—helped him on' his way. ; f On racing round the hedge into an? adjoining empty section the householder was confronted by the man, who, coolly greeted l;iin with: “What, are* you after him, t«o? I’ve just .chased; him through dfyfplace.” •

But the attempt tirbm-se as ah equally suffering neighbour did not' work.

Tousled hair, . scratches aud '.torn clothes told their own story, and taxed with a direct accusation he owned un to the offence. ;; . After a thorough dressing down the (intruder was "allowed to go.