HERMIT’S FASTNESS RAIDED.
WOMAN’S UNWELCOME VISIT. MEN SUFFER NERVOUS DISTRESS. By Cable —Press Association —CopyrlcH. Sydney “Sun’’ Service. (Received Sejiiember 16, 9.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. The first sight of a woman for fifty years, left the hermit Mason in a state of nervous distress, Thb woman says she is his former sweetheart. Following tho “Daily Mail’s” map, she penetrated the Masons’ retreat.
The brother, named Thomas, hearing a woman’s voice in the hut, was so alarmed and bewildered that he rushed for assistance, plunging through two miles Of ploughed fields, to implore the aid of a neighbouring farmer and his foreman.
The trio, after failing to locate a policeman, scrambled through tho fortifications and discovered the woman in the hut, still conversing with Mason, who was obviously upset. According to her story, she asked the hermit- if he .would like to go to London. He replied ho would, but only with her The trio finally persuaded her to leave.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17
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160HERMIT’S FASTNESS RAIDED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17
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