STONE-THROWING MYSTERY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 10

STONE-THROWING MYSTERY

(To th« Editor.)

Sir,—When reading in to-day's "Evcaing Post" of the mysterious stone-throw-ing at Picton, my mind travelled back to another similar happening which occurred in a country town in New South Waled about twenty-seven years ago. I was living in Sydney at the time, and caa well remember the sensational reports of mysterious bombardments of stones that wer« showered upou a certain house, sometimes three times a day. The local police wer« completely baffled, and all sort* of theories were advanced by amateur detectives, but the showers of stones continued to arrive, terrifying the residents. The case became so mysterious that detectives were dispatched from Sydney to investigate, and, to everybody' astonishment, th« culprit proved to be a young girl about fourteen years of age, who was employed at the house in question. Sh6 lad been reprimanded for some offence, and her form of revenge was to slip out of the house when opportunity offered, and, concealed behind some bushes close at hand. she would quickly throw several large stones and return unobserved to the house, where she would profess to be terrified by the happenings. Eventually she was detected in the act, but not until, she had mystified the whole of Australia for ten days.—l am, etc.,