LOSING HER ESCORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 9

LOSING HER ESCORT.

MAORI GIRL'S RUSE. MARRIED MAN IN TROUBLE. AWOKE A SLEEPING HOUSEHOLD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, this day. A Maori girl wandering round the streets late at night got a chivalrous young married man into the clutches of the police by a subtle ruse. After getting the man to escort her to tho locality in which she is said she lived, the girl asked him to go into a house and turn on the electric light, so that she' would not make a noise on entering. Befuddled with liquor, tho man discarded his boots and, at 4 a.m., entered the house of a prominent business man, Mr. Bullick. Pandemonium broke loose when he placed his hand on the face of a sleeping young woman. She screamed, and the man bolted to the diningroom where ho was hemmed in by the household, male and female, and forced to await the arrival of the police, in a comfortable chair.

It was learned that the Maori girl did not live on the premises, and had adopted this ruso to get rid of her escort. It was more effective than she had anticipated, as she disappeared into the darkness.

Later the man appeared in the Police Court on a charge of being illegally on premises, without intent to commit a crime. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three months, if called upon.