WORE WOMAN'S ATTIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 6

WORE WOMAN'S ATTIRE

''DID IT FOR A WAGER"

MALE OFFENDER REMANDED

(JJy Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, 6th May.

"He was1 fully dressed in women's apparel—even lipstick and a.powder puff," said Detective-Sergeant Nuttall concerning Herman Leonard Rollers, who was charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that he wore ■women's apparel. He pleaded guilt}-. Detective-Sergeant Nnttall said that last night rollers attended one of tho local picture theatres' dressed as a woman. The theatre staff.beeamo suspicious and communicated with the police. Detectives went to the theatre, and located the accused, and after the performance was over they followed him.

. In reply to the Magistrate, Follers .said that "he did it for a wager. A man bet him 10s ho was not game to go to the pictures dressed as a woman.- ,He borrowed the clothes from, a friend.

The Magistrate: ""Well, it looks as if the wager was not. worth taking when you see where it has landed you." Detective-Sergeant Nuttall said that when Rollers made a statement on the previous night he refused to say with whom he had made the wager.

The Magistrate said ho would like some further information about the accused before dealing with him. Itmight have been a harmless prank or it might have been something more sinister. The accused would be remanded till Saturday.