RALEIGH OUTDONE
OBLIGING YOUNG MAN TOO COURTEOUS SUDDENLY SOBERED Press Association DANNEVIRKE, Today. A Maori girl wandering round the streets late at night got a chivalrous young married man into the clutches o£ the police by a subtle ruse. After getting the man to escort her to the locality in which she said she lived, the girl asked him to go into a house and turn on the electric light, so that she would not make a noise on entering. Befuddled with liquor, the man discarded his boots and, at 4 a.m., entered the house of a prominent business man, Mr. Bullick. Pandemonium broke loose when he placed his hand on the face of a sleeping young woman. She screamed and the man bolted to the dining room, where he was hemmed in by the household, male and female, and forced to await the arrival of the police, in a comfortable chair. It was learned that the Maori girl did not live on the premises, and had adopted this ruse to get rid of her escort. It was more effective than she had anticipated, as she disappeared into the darkness. Later the man appeared in the Police Court on a charge of being illegally on premises, without intent to commit a crime. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three months, if called upon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 11
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228RALEIGH OUTDONE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 11
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