DESERTER HIDDEN IN A SECRET BOX

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 5

DESERTER HIDDEN IN A SECRET BOX

POLICE OLUE FROM MOTHER'S .BREAD SUPPLY, From the fact ■ that a Nottingham woman named Mary Morby was taking daily two more loaves than her usual wupply tho local police deduced that her .fion, who was reported to have decamped on tho eve o£ departure of a draft for France, • must le in tho house. They raided the house, and found tho man in a box in tho attic. They had been three weeks endeavouring to arrest him. The mother was charged at! Nottingham with harbouring a deserter; Tho man had been previously handed over to tho military. It was explained - that tho entrance to the house was guarded by a. ferocious dog. Tho police, however, gained admittance late at night. : When Mrs. lloi'by, a stall-holder in the local market, returned she denied that her son was there, despite the fact that his sweetheart was. ' In an attic a constable found a hig box provided with secret looks, two keyholes being dummies. When. h« got the lid open the man, partly dressed, sprang out. .

AH the coroners were of opinion that more- people were killed by tho darkened streets than had been or were likely to bfl killed bv Zeppelins, said the coroner -<- - vnWrn innuflsL mi March .1..