CHASE AFTER ELLIS.
Fun for the Press
A favourite amusement of a portion of the Masterton populace is to race up to a drowsy policeman in the local streets and call out " Ellis !" The effect is the same as yelling "Rats !" in the ear of a retrospective terrier. In these later days in the Wairarapa district it has been a positive danger for absent-minded persons to be abroad, so many corpuient constables on ferocious half-draughts are there dashing up and down the landscape in search of the Martinborough murderer. Any ordinary person with a three days' growth of bscird in that distressful locality is at once marked down as " extremely like Ellis" ; and if anybody answering this description seats himself at an hotel table and starts eating with his knife, the police are at once telephoned for.— Manawaiu Dally Times.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7725, 26 March 1904, Page 3
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140CHASE AFTER ELLIS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7725, 26 March 1904, Page 3
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