YOUNG MAN’S LOVE FOR POLICEWOMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 12

YOUNG MAN’S LOVE FOR POLICEWOMAN

TRIED TO WOO HER WHEN ON DUTY Were W. S. Gilbert with us to-day he would doubtless have found inspiration in a piquant incident relating to a woman policeman told at Hampstead Police Court. He would have found occasion to revise his lines: Mabel: How great thy charms, thy sway how excellent! Come, one and all undaunted men in blue; A crisis, now, affairs are coming to! Policewoman Browning told the magistrates that a young man named Sidney Collett stepped in front of her when she was on duty in East Heath Road, Hampstead, and began to tell her he had left a parcel for her. She said he had obstructed her repeatedly for some months and had written letters and sent photographs and presents to her. Thought it was Mutual Collett, on oath, said he was in love with Browning, and he thought the reeling was mutual. The first time ihey met she smiled at him and said: Oh, you naughty boy!” because he had been speaking to another girl. “I have never done anything without encouragement,” Collett added. A police inspector said he had seen Collett obstructing Browning on two previous occasions, and each time he ran away on being approached. Collett was bound over for 12 months in the sum of £o for obstructing the officer while on duty.