TERRORISED WOMEN
PET MONKEY BREAKS UP TEA PARTY’
A monkey kept by a Kingston family is said to terrorise the women in the neighbourhood whenever it gets out of the house. Detective Turnbull, at Kingston-on-Thames Police Court, said when he went to the house in Gibbon Road to arrest Mary Sainsbury, 45, who was charged with stealing 28s belonging to her mother, the monkey attacked him. The police put in a statement containing eleven complaints from people who alleged that they had been frightened by the monkey. One was from a woman who said that while having tea in her house the monkey got in and terrified everybody. Two other women stated that that the monkey had bitten them on the legs. The clerk recommended the magistrate to advise those people who had complaints to take a civil action for damages. Dismissing the charge of theft, the chairman, Mr. A. Higgs, told Sainbury that she must keep the monkey well under control.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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162TERRORISED WOMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 617, 20 March 1929, Page 11
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