PARADED IN LOIN CLOTH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 499, 22 July 1932, Page 7

PARADED IN LOIN CLOTH

WELLINGTON MAN CHARGED REMANDED FOR A WEEK Press Association Copvright. WELLINGTON, Thur scl ay.— F rederick Perrin, who paraded in Willis Street recently in a loin cloth and a pair of shoes, was again before the court today on a charge of behaving m a disorderly manner and again as, sorted that he was actuated by humanitarian motives by demonstrat. ing what the unemployed dress cf the future would be on the allowance ol 15s a week made by the Unemploy, ment Board. He complained that despite live fact that he was remanded for medi. cal examination he had been kept in a cell like any other prisoner and had been examined only by the prison doctor. A certificate from the prison hand, ed in was that in the doctor’s opin. ion Perrin was. sane. After he had examined the clothing on Perrin, which he said was the same as lie had been wearing when arrested, the . magistrate said he would take time to consider his decision and remanded Perrin for a week. Bail of £2O in his cwn bond was allowed.