A PEEPING TOM SENT TO GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 9

A PEEPING TOM SENT TO GAOL

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_ ■■"'■ ■/■ : DUNEDIN, This Day. Leonard Clement, a young Englishman aescribetl as district manager for New Zealand .for a fire extinguisher company was _yesterday sentenced to:: a month's imprisonment on .-a;charge of being a rogue and: vagabond, in that he was found by night without excuse in a carden in High street. ' /• . v A young lady, : who boards at: . the House on the grounds in .which accused was found, said that: she had gone to where she boarded late at night, and t_nat as she wenf:up the steps she saw a man come from the front bedroom window When she gof to the door she asked the man what he wanted. He had replied that he was "looking for'Mr Davidson," and she, had said that no Davidson lived there/ :. ' ■■: - .Another boarder stated that she was in the .house when the previous witness asked her to coree to the door. Earlier m the evening she had seen a lady who occupied the room from the window of which defendant was alleged to have come. This lady_ was then going .to bed. Accused,- m his evidence, denied that he; was near the window. , . The Magistrate said accused's object in being about the house was certainly to pry and probably to look through

The Rev. George Moreton, actinff-pro-bation officer, asked What leniency be extended to accused, who had served as a petty officer in. the Naval Air Force party of the time at Gallipoli, and had been severely wopnded, losing his right arm. ; He had good discharges from the Army, and at the close of his service was employed by the fire extinguisher company as agent in India and Burma, He recently came to New Zealand. _In reijly:to the Magistrate, the ChiefDetective said that there had been complaints about indecent exposures and "Peeping Toms." . .

'Ihe Magistrate: "I do not feel disposed to treat this class of case leniently. There is only one tiling to bo clone with a man who is either a pervert or n. 'Peeping Tom.' Ho will be sentenced to a month's imprisonineuti"