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BURMESE ASSAULTS PATRON FEARED EXPOSURE OF TRICK (By Telegraph—Pres? Association) BLENHEIM, Monday. An attempt to expose the Indian rope trick while a sideshow was in progres son the Picton foreshore during the holidays resulted in the appearance in the Police Court at Picton this morning of Jedda Kreshna, a Burmese sideshowman, on a charge of assaulting Trevor Francis Probyn, chauffeur, of Napier. The police stated that during the progress of the performance Probyn professed to know how the illusion was done. Kreshna, fearing it might be exposed, requested him to be a sport and keep quiet. Subsequently the Burmese became aware that someone was interfering with the apparatus at the rear of the tent.
Rushing out, he saw Probyn in a group and struck him a blow in the groin. Probyn was admitted to hospital with symptoms of serious injury which later transpired to be only slight. Meanwhile, another man altogether confessed to having interfered with the sideshow equipment. In view of the circumstances Kreshna was2 fined a nominal amount of 10s.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 8
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