JOHNSON'S "JOKE"

NZ Truth, Issue 602, 30 December 1916, Page 6

JOHNSON'S "JOKE"

A Lucky Let-off "Peeping Tom" m a Boarding House Many and varied are the things that appeal to the many and varied minds, but a chap with a debased Uiinkingrbox came to light at the Auckland Court on Friday, and a queer sort of,

f amusement, If so it could be called, appealed to this particular Individual. The chap In question was Frederick William Johnson, a traveller for an* oil company, and a married man, by the way, and ho pleaded guilty to two : charges of committing damage to the j tune of i! 2 und £4. j It appears that Johnson had In two ; instances engaged a room j IN CERTAIN BOAHDINQ HOUSES, ; tho room each time being either th« one above the ladles' bathroom or the i onu next to H. With brace and bit ho I would then bor* hol«'rf In the wall : through which he could see tho girls I havlnK their bath. Hln latest boarding house had been th»> King's Court, and It was )-iirot:jrh him coming his debased trick* tht r.- thai Unl to his arrest by Deti'tiivt- (.'mnnting:! ut i he Auckland ; railway nation »m Thor«dn>\ i MuKistruu- 1 Cuttou must have bf»«M» !n a kooil I'.unuir ntu-r h\j holiday m the Kouth, :<»■> he fiv.cit .loluu.on only £2 and i ordcr.nl \.\v\ to pay the enmag^ii.