A DIRTY LIAR.

NZ Truth, Issue 81, 5 January 1907, Page 4

A DIRTY LIAR.

Taranaki's Terrible Tale-teller. „. ,_ * . A Creditable Exhib. Agent Sandbagged m Mis Mind ! This paper hates ip chronicle tha existence of ; awful liars m tlse place m which it lives; The 1 daily 1 papers, most practised , personal , and perfidious, hold a monopoly of the Ananias ganie, and are letting shares out now at so much per gross. Last week (to come to the point) "Truth" made reference to a chap named Hooker, who alleged that he Had been sandba^d near the Museum alter leaving tte exhibition, rather late one night, but not until after the majority of the public had left. There was a wealth of detail" about the sandbagging of Hooker, so muoh so, m fact, that; the yarn was disbelieved and m the end the black bottle of obloquy fell on him and smothered his character, and did other Ihiups which need not be particularised. The writer expressed doubt about the man being; easwlbaeged,- but that went by the board, gfld it was only through .the persistency and insistency of the , detectives (Gfbson and Tteß. Ward) that - THE POOL FELLOW who runs the Taranaki Court. aVHaa Zibishun, caved m and said that :his .yarn was all flam. Well, i hat's , a nice thing for anybody to say. IE this person, this liar, this cow milk province scavenger Hooker— the Hooker who has bcon running the Taran&ki Court— admits that he basn'-fc been robbed, or sandbagged, or anything done to him at all, how are we- going; to treat the- fellow ? It is a public scandal, and requires renovation. When pressed by the 'tecs he said there wasn't an atom of truth iji his blasted yarn of sandbagging. Ho broke down under a crucial test, and the more the tests, the less was h«» able to answer them. So he stood, and still stands, as a man apart m that Zibishun, of whom nobody i }Ut a stivan<rer takes notice, and who fervently wishes he was born a itfnss with a hole m the to". It is an awful thing io bo branded thus, but that's Taranaki's own fault. ]j Hooker wanted notoriety lie got it- m last week's "Truth" ; if lip still barkers after -notoriety he will j»e* it : r\ this week's issue of '■the uam'e r-arvr For he told Detectives Ward and QW+. son that his statement about NMjjc sandha^eed and robbed was a lie ' «£ they stormed further enquiries somft. what abruptly, .