INDIAN ROPE TRICK
CONTROVERSY & ASSAULT AT PICTON. ARISING OUT OF THREAT OF EXPOSURE. (By Telegraph—Press Zissociatlon.) BLENHEIM, This Day. An attempt to expose the Indian rope trick. while a sideshow was in progress on the Picton foreshore during the holidays, resulted in the appearance in the Police Court al Picton this morning of Jcdda Kreshna, a Burmese sideshowman, on a charge of assaulting Trevor Francis Probyn, chauffeur, Napier.
The police stated that during the progress of the performance, Probyn professed to know how the illusion was performed. Kreshna, fearing that it would be exposed, requested him to be a sport and keep quiet. Subsequently the Burmese became aware that someone was interfering with the apparatus at the rear of the tent and, rushing out, saw Probyn in a group and struck him a blow in the groin. Probyn was admitted to hospital with symptoms of serious injury, which later proved to be only slight. Meanwhile another man altogether confessed to having interfered with the sideshow equipment.
In view of the circumstances Kreshna was fined the nominal amount of ten shillings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 6
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180INDIAN ROPE TRICK Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 6
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