NO “HOODED MORALISTS”
RECENT ALLEGATION RIDICULED IN BRISBANE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The chief of the Brisbane Criminal Investigation Bureau, Inspector Jessen, offered to eat both his hats if any one could produce a “hooded moralist.” Inspector Jessen said that after the recent complaints about Brisbane orgies, he put an extra squad of detectives on city duty. They did not find any “doorway necking” and certainly did not find any “hooded moralists. All they did was to wear out good shoe leather. “Hooded moralists,” he said, “do not exist and never did exist.” A. weekend canvass disclosed that none of Brisbane’s 400 police and detectives ever heard of hooded moralists; also that the fireworks, stated to have been used by the moralists, almost unprocurable.
A recent cablegram from Brisbane alleged that “hooded moralists” were disturbing couples by exploding firecrackers. <
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
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147NO “HOODED MORALISTS” Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
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