PEEPING TOM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 3

PEEPING TOM

AN UNLUCKY PROWL GOT TWO HEFTY. KICKS A New Plymouth Peeping Tom got more than lie bargained for the other night. All he received for prowling round in his stocking feet was twe lefty kicks, badly scratched face and nands, and torn clothes when he tried .o dive through a hedge. For some time a resident of Cutheld road had been puzzled by a strange hole in his hedge, and the not infrequent discovery of footprints n the garden. One night he and his wife were preparing for bed when he happened to Ounce at the window and saw a flash jf white as a figure hurriedly drew pack out of sight. The householder .ushod out just in time to see the intruder crawling under the hedge, rhe latter went a good deal faster when two solid kicks—and the houseolder still had his boots on—helped aim on his way.

On racing round the hedge into an idjoining empty section the householder was confronted by the man, who coolly.greeted him with: "What, are you alter him, too? I've just chased him through my place.” But the attempt to pose as an equally suffering neighbour did not work. Tousled hair, scratches and torn clothes,told their own story, and faxed with a direct accusation lie nvned up to the offence. After a thorough dressing down he intruder was allowed to go.