ABSENTEE'S DISGUISE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 June 1917, Page 3

ABSENTEE'S DISGUISE.

flo£nD HIDING IN THE CLOTHES | ' OF A WOMAN. v WJien charged as an absentee at .ttiej "'.,i West London Police Court, phagjes. Morbin, eighteen, a driver in had to be carried into jcpU!}U''"He looked very ridiculous in clothes. •t ;lfe d'Eyncourt asked if the man was" really ill. jS'eflgeant Neill: He is only shammjirig?, and has acted in this way ev*eijytWo or three minutes since his arrest; ® jNWIl 1 ; continuing, said that he went 'to B a' house in Wandsworth Bridge>roa~d, and the occupiers denied all .•knowledge or Morbin. He looked into ground flat, and found him hiding underneath a bed. He was dres"sed in female attire, induing a hat and veil. On being arrested, he s said,' "My mother supplied the clothes s took my uniform to clean it."

* It f was with considerable difficulty 'that the youth could be got to speak 'in court, but eventually in a whisper admitted that he was an absentee. I The magistrate handed him over to the military and ordered him to be examined by a doctor. Subsequently Dr. George Barnes said that he had examined Morbin, and found him to be very weak. He was. suffering more from funk than anything ..else. The man was not fit for, ( a train journey, and insufficiently clas to be sent by cab. i The magistrate ordered the man to be taken to camp in an ambulance.