“BOLD, BAD MAN”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 559, 11 January 1929, Page 13

“BOLD, BAD MAN”

; CAVE-MAN LOVER’S PRANKS INSPIRED BY MOVIES Inspired by the villains of films he j had seen at cinemas. Percy McChay, a 1 milk roundsman, of Tivoli Road. ! Hounslow Heath, London, determined : to take forcible steps to win back the love of the girl who had rejected him Some of his methods were as fol- | low: —* Knocked the girl oft her bicycle and. seized her by the throat. Concealed himself in a cupboard lit her bedroom, and, on coming oui. I gave her a letter of a sickly and sentimental character. Agaiu pulled her off her meycle and | threatened her with a razor. Gave her a threatening letter, speaking of a mjsterious gang in the East End, which, on the rise of his finger, would do his bidding, as he had committed a crime. Met her near the river with a rope in his hands, and threatened to throw her into the water. There was a sequel at Brentford Police Court recently, when McChay was charged with assaulting the girl, Evelyn Sommers, of Staines Road, Hounslow, and with stealing a bicycle. Mr. Melville, prosecuting, said the girl formerly kept company with McChay until he absconded with some of his employer’s money. She broke off the friendship, and since then he had continually pestered her. “By his letters,” said Mr. Melville, “one would think he desired to create the impression that he was a bold, bad man of the West, wearing a huge sombrero and carrying a belt full of revolvers.” McChay was sentenced to two months’ hard labour for stealing the bicycle and bound over for two years on condition that he did not visit or write to the girl or frequent the town of Hounslow.