"HOODED MORALISTS"
BRISBANE POLICE DENIAL. Rec. 1.30 p.m. BRISBANE, this day The chief of the Brisbane Criminal Investigation Bureau, Inspects Jesson, has offered to eat both his hats if anvone could produce "the hooded moralist." He said that, after 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 do not exist, ad never did exist," he said. A week-end canvass disclosed that none of Brisbane's 400 police and detectives had ever heard of hooded moralists, and also that the fireworks, stated to have been used by the moralists, are almost unprocurable.
Last week a cable from Brisbane reported that members of a "moralist society" were going round in hoods and capes, exploding fire-crackers to frighten couples in park and doorways, this being one of their methods "to quell the outbreak of sin i..id vice."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 200, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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