SUSPICIOUS MAIDEN

NZ Truth, Issue 998, 10 January 1925, Page 7

SUSPICIOUS MAIDEN

Where Did You Get That

Suit ?

Stowaway Thief Crashes at a Dance.

When Edward Milbourn Sorenson confronted Joyce Read for the pleasure of a dance at the Trades Hall m Auckland during the Christmas festivities, hfc little expected to be answered m the characteristic Scottish fashion by being asked another question, and even less could he expect that question to be, "Where did you ,get that suit?" But such was his lutk, and although he got the dance he was afterwards arrested on a charge of stealing a suit and also a silk, shirt.

Sprenson, a smart-looking young man, glib of tongue and with a" decidod Yankee twang, pleaded not guilty to the charges, but evidence went all the other way and he was convicted. The owners of the suit and shirt respectively were or had been residents of the boarding house at which Sorenson had been staying, but when he was taxed with the thefts Sorenson said that he had bought the clothes from a man m the street whom he did not know and had not seen since. The shirt worn by the accused was identified by its rightful owner. The accused told Miss Read, when asked the pertinent question, where did he get the suit, never, to mind and not to ask questions, but this did not satisfy the dancer, and she pressed the point ere she would agree to dance. So Sorenson said that a man had been owing him some money and instead he took' the suit.

.S.M.- Poynlon said that the excuse about getting: the suit from the man m the street would not wash. It was too. old and worn out.

Chief Detective Cummings said that the accused came to the country as a stowaway as recently as November last on the Pakeha. /

The S.M. remarked that he had not been long m making his presence felt m the community. He came to the country as a stowaway and was treated well, but had a strange way of .showing gratitude. Six months was tli"e sentence. 1