POLICEMAN'S CYCLE COMEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17246, 23 August 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

POLICEMAN'S CYCLE COMEDY.

Thefts of bicycles were prevalent lately in Kingston. A young woman complained to the police that hers.had disappeared while-- she was shopping., Giving 'her a caution that people were, very careless in leaving cycles unprotected, a policeman cycled to the shop. to make inquiries. He left his own against the kerb, and when he came out it had gone. i

-.« uun»ivuuux. a. J.W) -ntofcorman. Fc* ft week after this crime the villagers hunted the bandits, but found no trace of them. Then one day recently a butcher's wife saw three men" in shabby military uniform enter her shop. ** Ah, you are demobilised," - she remarked! Smiling, they edged her towards a back room when £ hoarse inarticulate cry riyetted them to the spot. It came from a half-witted deaf mute, who on a previous occasion had seen three women, pnsh- . ing a wheelbarrow in the mountains, -suddenly transform'themselves into the likeness of Hie dreaded bandits. According to the Petit Parisien, the deaf mute continued to gesticulate and otter warning caries till one of the men, with a kick/ sent him reeling into a corner. Help' however, was forthcoming, and neighbours arrived in time to see the Baudissarts and their. woman companion making off towards the mountains, which they reached unscathed.