SUSPECTED AS SPY
MAN IN WOMAN’S CLOTHES. INCIDENT AT TIMARU. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, January 26. How a well-known Timaru businessman paraded in women’s clothing in Caroline Bay on Sunday when he roused suspicion as a spy and was latei\ arrested in the women’s waitingroom of the Timaru railway station, was told in the Magistrates’ Court today. Accused was William Claude Marcelle Preen, married, aged 41. He pleaded guilty to being found unlawfully in the waiting-room at the station. The police said Preen could give no excuse for his conduct but probably had seen so many women in male attire that he thought he could wear female attire. The idea had been in his mind for some time and he had bought the clothes in Christchurch and Timaru. There was no evidence that he had molested any women. Counsel said Preen’s lapse was the result of some craze to see how it would feel to dress like a woman. The magistrate said the case was probably one for medical investigation rather than punishment as a criminal offence. Preen was ordered to come up ' for sentence if called on within 12 months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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