UNRECIPROCATED AFFECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 253, 24 March 1914, Page 5

UNRECIPROCATED AFFECTION.

AN AUCKLAND COMEDY. A TOO PERSISTENT ADMIRER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A strange story of a young man's love infatuation was told in the Police Court this morning, when Walter King applied to have W. P. Storey hound over to Tefram from acts of annoyance. Tlio story told by Mr. Mowlem, for the complainant, was that in May of last year the young man Storey met complainant's daughter, a lady of 23 years, in Albert Park, and introduced himself m rather a strange fashion. He immediately commenced to write letters to the young lady, at first addressing her in the letters as Miss King, but nrosn-essintr miicklv tn "TVnr Mo » n «j

t vcutually using the most endearing of |e -ins, despite tlie fact tlmt none of his !ett ers were """weed, nnd that not the fi li{;h tcst su gg«tion of reciprocity was made hy the lad - v - Kin S' an d also his son wl ' lloste(l Storey to cease the correspondent >c ' 7 1 nd ''ndicated very strongly that Miss ,!'" " ml Ilcr fa ™ily desired to have m ,tnl "K to do with him. The only result • was t!lat Kin S wa9 included in 'the flood of corl 'espondence, while Miss King wni " further annoyed by the appearance of S torc . v wherever she went in public. He t eg>stered his letters to ensure their read ""£ ] t,lelr destination, and sent telegrams, alul ™ n g her up on the telephone. In the las t ea se, mention of his name alw. V 8 resulted in an immediate "ring-off,"' bllt Storey still persisted. Storey was warned by a detective, but it made no effect, and cou. n9c ' was instructed on March S to tai'te proceedings. Every day since then' the Kings had received one' or two regis,toed letters from Storey. Mr. Moody, for Storey, admitted the facts, stating that the defendant was evidently obsessed with the idea that the young lady was in love with him. Counsel suggested, however, that the better way out of the difficulty would , be for the Court to warn Storey to de- j sist, and to adjourn the case with a provision that it could be brought on again immediately should Storey not heed the warning. Mr. Mowlem said his client desired a surety, however small, and the Magistrate ordered Storey to find a surety for £25 that he would not in any way ; molest the complainant during the next, six months.