POLICEMEN BREAK THE LAW.
DRESSED AS WOMEN.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 14. It was stated at the Durham Assizes, when Alfred Brunton was sentenced to a flogging and eighteen months’ imprisonment for robbing women late at night, that for the purpose of catching him the police dressed as women, carrying Dorothy ,bags and being well made up. Brunton, frightened by the bulk of one of these supposed women, bolted' into the arms of a plain-clothes policeman aiid was caught.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 November 1924, Page 5
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