STREET PEST’S ARDOR COOLED

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 12

STREET PEST’S ARDOR COOLED

DRENCHING FROM GARDEN HOSE. A man named Duncan M'Milfan, who was alleged to have been annoying girls and women passing along the street with unwelcome attentions, received wcllmorited punishment in Melbourne recently, from a married woman named Mrs A. '1 homas, of Church street, Richmond. Mrs Thomas, who was the principal witness when M'.Millan was charged with having behaved in an offensive manner, described defendant's conduct. She said ho addressed remarks to any unescorted woman who came along. She was hosing her garden at the time, and when defendant called out something to her she promptly turned the hoeo on him.—(Laughter.) Enraged at the “ducking” he hod received, defendant was attempting to climb over the front fence to attack her when Constable Gott arrived on the scene. She gave the man in charge. Defendant denied that he had been behaving in an unseemly manner. The bench found the charge* proved, and fined him £3, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment.