A “PEEPING TOM.”

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 7

A “PEEPING TOM.”

INTRUDER BEFORE THE FOUR A SENSATIONAL STRUGGLE (Per Press Association). Dunedin, April 24. A sensation attempt by Sir Charles Statlmm to capture a “Peeping Tom” was related in the Police Couit this morning when a man named Win. Reay, married, with one child, signwriter, pleaded guilty to being found at night without lawful excuse, but not in circumstances winch disclosed the commission of a crime’ on the premises of Sir Charles Stathaiu, in Hawthorne Avenue. Sir Charles’s daughter was retiring for the night and saw a man looking through a window and informed her father, who immediately went outside and grappled with the intruder. A tierce struggle ensued in which tlm daughter pluckily assisted her father. Reay dually broke away, much hte worse for wear, but was subsequently arrested. In pleading guilty accused said tlml he had been so drunk.that he did uot remember having been on the premises. lie was remanded in custody till Friday for the gaol surgeon's report. ,