CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 182, 6 August 1935, Page 8

CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD

On a warrant issued over ten years ago, Juh n William Trevqlyan, of West Hampstead, appeared before Bedford magistrates recently, charged with stealing £6. George Roddis, of Bedford, stated that Trevelyan stayed with him in Mandi, 1925, and when he missed notes from a jacket hanging in the bedroom, Trevelyan was also missing. Trevelyan, an engineer, pleaded guilty to stealing the money, and then police-inspector made a plea for leniency. “The theft,” stated the inspector, “was committed 10 years ago, and 1 don’t want to see Trevelyan go to Ibison afTei i’ll this time. He is trying to make good.” Trevelyan promised to pay the £6, and the magistrate responded to the inspector's appeal by binding him over on his promise. Trevelyan, who has a wife and two ch !dren, had previously stated that L.s employer had assured him that he cuui.i go back to his job if he came out of this trouble all right.

Fishing Extrao’ d.nary Angling for crocodiles was explained by Captain Heber Percy to the Anglers’ <’lub in Wellington recently, 'l’he method was to bait large hooks with baboon, and not far above the bait was an empty petrol tin, as float. Keeping this below water exerted a pull which kept the •crocodile’s month open, and facilitated the landing, in which donkeys took the place of the reel, and the cutch was shot on arrival ashore. Crocodiles usually knocked away the legs of unwary riverbank pedestrians with their tails as a preliminary to seizing them. They were known to have pulled in lionz and even buffalo. When a grip had been secured, the “croc” did not exhaust itself, but just held on, waiting the inevitable moment when the victim paused for breath, then “taking in the slack” as it were, and gradually getting its prey under water. Crocodiles d'd not immediately eat (heir catches, but stowed them under roots below water, in fact “hanging” their game.