STRUGGLE IN HOTEL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1915, Page 15

STRUGGLE IN HOTEL.

" ! DETECTIVE ATTACKED WITH A SHOVEL. Well-dressed, and firing tb<" name n\ Bruce Bahnard. o 111.111 who Kniil he hai! private means; was charged al Bow Street (London! as a t»u>:>i" tnl pcr s .ui. l.ilti-rlnj: ni thf Hotel Mctropole, Nnr:huinl>erla.i< Avenue, for tin , supposed purpose of <'<mi> mltLlng a felony, nnj. further, with us.null Ing Detective Lawrence. Kvld.'iire was slven that prisoner hail been staying at tlir IJotrl Meiropole fnr r week, iintl, lv ruiiß«]uenee of complaint! from visitors and reports rrnm waiters, tin polJce were cuminuiilcated with. lie wai kept under observation Id the hotel lohiircnnd ivas seen to enter Into con versa Urn with three jeutleraen, one of, whom he In vlted to lunch with him on the fnllnwlni day at the Piccadilly Hotel. I'rlwouer re tired to his room, to which Detective Laurence afterwords went fie told prisonri he Intended to" arrest him as a suspected person. Accused replied: "All right. Low rence, I will eleiir out now and clve you t tilt for yourself." "You will have to ri with mc to Cannon How Police Station.' said the detective, whereupon prisoner ex claimed: "No, not for you or fifty llki you." The officer was about to telephoni for the manager, when prisoner picked ni I a shovel from the tlmplarr and threnteuei Ito dnMi his brains out. He strncji ut tiln J twice, injurlnc one of li!e Iramls. nnd nl« J daroaßlng the door of the room. A 1 strunßle ensued, in the course of whlcl prisoner attempted to hit the detective -nrltl a poker, l>ut eventually assistance arrived and he was taken to thr stntlon. Aftei paying hie hotel bill he Tiad 3/6 left In ate possession. Prisoner's, record was banded up to th« ■magistrate, who remarked tlrat he appeared to have been convicted twice In this conn try and also In Australia. Bshnnrd went into the witness-box and stated that he had ouly been eomrlcted on two occasions—once at Liverpool and oner at Bow Street. lie hmi gone to bed, nml was about to read a magazine -when thr detective entered the room. The detective said: -"nils Is a nice game; yon win havf to get ont of here." Tie thought Hiat under the drenmetances be was enllticd to nirc the Snorel. He hail recently come from Lisbon with the intention of Jolninß the Army. He had property In Melbourne, and his wife was living In n flat Ln ilaivlefoone Hoad. no was not at the hotel with any felonious Intent. He denied that he had *»er been convicted Jn Australia, He -was born In -Melbourne iv 1575. and -was of Independent meane, his nrother sending him money from Wβ property. The magistrate, pointing out that prisoner enly had 3/8 on him when arrested, remaoded him In enstody.