SIX-FOOT “WOMAN”
A CLERGYMAN« RUSE. ' IN SEARCH OF CHIVALRY. 0 (Received 11.30 ath.)* ■>-hj LONDON, September 18. ;'% The mystery of a • six-foot man” wandering the'country lanestitfj South England in the past 12 months, dressed in white shoes, black skirt, red hat and veil, often 1 frightening women and children, was dramatically solved, late last night, when the person was seized-and* unmasked at Curry Rivell, Somerset, by a local innkeeper. ’ ' ■ i The masquerader turned out to,, the Rev, A. H. Read, a Congregat£on-|| al minister, who refused to comment 2 till this morning, when he summoned large meetings of townspeople and 1 plained that he desired to test the social morality attitude towards wo- - men. He did not consider /he had ;, done any harm; on the found the men of England, wonderfully,, chivalrous. He would raise his hat to l ,- Englishmen and apologise to He hoped he would be forgiven spasm of folly.—-A. and ,N.Z. • I '
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Northern Advocate, 19 September 1927, Page 5
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