"GLAD EYE" BANNED.
ADELAIDE PROSECUTIONS.
The popular practice of young men speaking in the city streets to ladies whom they do not know is receiving a check by 'police methods, says an Adelaide paper. A police-woman has been posted at likely spots, and while there is no evidence that she has been giving the young Lotharios the "glad-eye," some have been caught and fined about £5, with costs.
The method has been to allow the voung men to speak to the official Eve, and probably to ask her "if she has missed the other boy," and then for a policeman who has been watching to arrive on the spot, and inquire from the woman whether the unsuspecting youth knew her, and if his conduct had been offensive. One young man walked past the police-woman several times and make remarks such as "What about coming for a walk with me ?" The magistrate said the practice was too common in Adelaide, and would have to be stopped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18279, 21 December 1922, Page 11
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