ROPE TRICK ILLUSION
EXPOSURE FEARED ATTACK ON DETRACTOR (Pm* Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. An attempt to expose the Indian rope trick while a side-show was in progress on the Picton foreshore during the holidays resulted in the appearance in the Police Court at Picton this morning of Jedda Kresthna, a Burmese sides'howman, on a charge of assaulting Trevor Francis Probyn, a chauffeur, Napier. The police stated that during the progress of the performance Probyn professed to know how the illusion was performed. Kreshna, fearing that it would be exposed, requested him to be a sport and keep quiet. Subsequently, the Burmese became aware that someone was interfering with the apparatus at the rear of the tent. Rushing out, he saw Probyn in a group and struck him a blow in the groin. Probyn was admitted to the hospital wit'h symptoms of a serious injury, which later transpired to be only slight. Meanwhile, another man altogether confessed to having interfered with the sideshow equipment.
In view of the circumstances, Kreslma was fined a nominal amount of 10s.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 7
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