MAN UNDER BED

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1941, Page 10

MAN UNDER BED

i NURSE THRASHES MAORI, j Caught beneath a bed which was i occupied by two girls, Tere Nepe, a | i Maori, was thrashed with a stick by i a woman who captured him. j This story was related to Justices ; in the Ruatoria Court when Nepe was I ordered to come up for sentence if ! called upon within a year. , . I Constable Birch stated that a nurse j at a large homestead near Ruatoria I I heard a strange noise during the ! | early hours of the morning of De- I ‘ cember 26 and found two maids sitting on a bed, apparently frightened, I and complaining that there was a

man under the bed. They said the man had caught one of them by the log. The nurse fortified herself with a stick and an electric torch and ferreted the man from under the bed, thrashing him with the stick and turning him over to the' only man staying on the premises. The intruder was accommodated in the kitchen while a call was sent for the police, but before the police arrived he escaped by a window. During the following days a constable made a wide search for the accused and eventually found his man after nearly a fortnight’s search. Accused admitted the offence. 1