MASKED MAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24539, 23 March 1943, Page 5

MASKED MAN

NOCTUBNAL INTEUDEB PERIOD OF DETENTION Charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that 110 was found on the night of March 15 with his face masked and wearing Yubber sandshoes with felonious intent, Harold Frame Beverly Kogden. aged 32, soldier, pleaded guilty before Mr. J. H. Luxlord S.M., yesterday. Senior-Detective Walsh said accused went to the window of a house early in the morning and looked in. When he came again later that morning a young man of the house grappled with him and detained him. Accused was charged with being on premises on March 11, 1942, when he was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within a year, and 011 December 18, 1942, he faced a charge similar to the present one. He was then stood down for examination by a psychiatrist and had later gone to camp. He was on leave when the latest offence was committed. Mr. Elwarth, who appeared for accused, said it seemed that he wanted to be apprehended. He did not want to go where 110 was told by the Army he was going. "It will ho no use until you get a complete change of outlook," said the magistrate to accused. His undertaking that he would go straight to the Army and do his duty had been accepted, but he was now becoming a public nuisance. He would be kept in reformative detention for two years.