GIRL TERRORISED

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 68, 20 March 1936, Page 10

GIRL TERRORISED

MAX'S STUPID PRANK

HELD OUT OF TRAIN WINDOW

"NOT TO BE TOLERATED"

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

A child of twelve years was leaning out of the window of a moving railway carriage waving to a school friend. Suddenly she was grabbed by the heels and held suspended out of the window and over the side of the line.

This was what Frederick Ernest Browne, a labourer, 34 years of age, said he did for a joke when he appeared before the Magistrate, Mr. Levvey, in Court this morning and pleaded not guilty to assaulting a girl at Selwyn. on March 2.

"If that is your idea of a joke you and others who indulge in this kind of thing will have to learn that such actions will not be tolerated," said the Magistrate. "You will be fined £10 and costs, in default three months' imprisonment."

The facts were rather unusual and might have been very serious,, said Chief-Detective Dunlop, On March 2 the accused, together with a number of other adult persons, was a passenger on the 5 p.m. train to Rakaia. A number of Technical College pupils and pupils from other schools were also travelling on the train. When the train left Selwyn a girl was leaning out of one of the windows waving to a, school friend who had just left the train. The accused, who was passing through the carriage, grabbed the girl by the ankles and tipped her out of j the- window. He then hung on. An- \ other man helped to get the girl back into the carriage again. "I need hardly point out the seriousness of the ! position," said the Chief-Detective, I "for if the accused had let go the | girl would have fallen on her head on the line." The accused's explanation was that he did it for a joke and later he ■offered the girl 2s. The girl, was not hurt but was suffering from shock. To the Magistrate the'accused said it was done for a joke but it was unintentional. He did not know what made him do it. ' , j 1936 FINANCIAL PROSPECTS. They tell us we are going to make a lot more money in 1936 —and we are going to still have Luxury. Of course Luxury saves us money. Equal to the j best brands of tobacco, but sold at the competitive price of Is lOd for 2oz. Luxury tobacco caters for the times. —Advt.