FULL MOON ANTICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 4

FULL MOON ANTICS.

MAD FREAKS Al- WANGANin; YOUNG MAN RUNS AMOK. TWO-STEP OX ROOF. (By Telepraoh.—Special to "Star.") WANG-Xn\ this day. Remarkablo happenings often occur at the time of full moon. Late on Satur. day night the extraordinary activities of two individuals caused the police to be busy for some time. The first incident occurred in a boardinghouse, where a young man possessed a hallucination that he had killed a ( hinaraan, and that the police were after him. The nest hour was crowded with a lot of excitement for himself and for two guardians of the law-, who were soon on his track. He left the boardinghouse with a vault over a balcony on to the road, and, despite the leap of 2o feet, apparently escaped without injury. His next call was at the Telephone Exchange, where his weird antics made a couple of attendants on duty feel more than apprehensive. Hβ left abruptly, taking a bicycle that was standing in the lobby. At this stagp he. temporarily passed out of sight, but later he appeared in the avenue, and thea things for a time began to move. A weighing machine caught his eye; he successfully wrestled with it and upended it on the footpath. He then had a falling-out with the Wanganui "Herald" Co.'s large plate-glass window, ■which he smashed, glass falling in all directions. His next exploit was to teaj down a number of verandah blinds from a shop window, and his final prank wa» an endeavour to relieve a poficeman of his shako. Possibly this short, merrr rampage would have ended at this point, but, being fleet of foot, the fellow quickly outranged the indi,enant representative of law and order. By devious paths he got back to the boardinghouse, but two constables were soon there. They decided it was good strategy to get their quarry lured by a message that somebody wanted to see him at the door. When he did see who was there Jie fled precipitately up the stairway. Fast following on his heels, one of the eonetables cut off his route to the balcony, and finally the object of police search was found hidden under a bed. The man was taken into custody and placed under medical observation.

Subsequently a S.O.S. message came from a local cabaret, where it was discovered that a young man was up on the roof of tho building doing one-steps and two-steps and generally behaving in a very eccentric and hilarious fashion. It was a job beyond the scope of the M.C., but others joined in with supplications, and finally the indecorous one was induced to abandon his risky location and return to earth. In a struggle with, another man he lost his coat and vest, and bolted away. Finally the police located him, and after a few inquiries directed him on the way home. It appeared that the Old Boys' football team's return to form on Saturday upset the man's equilibrium, and he was celebrating their victory in the extraordU nary manner described.