MASQUERADE AS GIRL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1931, Page 10

MASQUERADE AS GIRL

BATHING POOL ARREST.

LONDON, September 9. At the Old Bailey yesterday Leonard Dennis Boyle, 16, a telephone operator. pleaded guilty to stealing £lO, a ring, and other articles, belonging to his mother. Mr F. Peregrine, prosecuting, said that the boy was the only child of respectable parents. He had been bound over for stealing a w-ireless set; fined at Eastbourne for stealing a woman’s bathing costume; and at Dorking bound over for stealing women's underclothing. The jewellery which he stole he converted into money, with which he bought expensive girl’s clothes.

He went to Jersey and registered his name as “Ivy Dale.” He was arrested, while wearing a girl’s costume, in a bathing pool. Det.-Sergt. Rushton said that when Boyle was arrested he was found to be in the possession of three ladies’ dresses, female underwear, several rows of beads, brooches, and cosmetics. His character as a telephone operator was excellent.

“Your sole desire,” said the Recorder, addressing Boyle, “was to get money to dress yourself as a girl and behave as a girl. You will go to Borstal for three years.”