THEFT OF BEDDING ALLEGED

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 9

THEFT OF BEDDING ALLEGED

FROM TAUMARUNUI HOTEL.

ACCUSED DEFENDS HIMSELF.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, this day. William John Frederick Moore, a man about 40 years of age, was charged in the Supreme Court to-day with the theft of a quantity of bedding and bed clothes from the dwelling of Annie Bullimore at Taumarunui on August 13. Prisoner was not represented by counsel.

In stating the case for the Crown, Mr/ H. T. Gillies said the articles were stolen from the hotel during the night, and later they were found in the nut of a man named Matthews. Moore told Matthews he had been "stunned" when ho took the bedding. He later removed the articles, since when they had never been recovered. A baker, when going to work, early in the morning, saw a man standing near the Midland Hotel and wished him good morning, but received no answer. The baker could only identify prisoner as the man by the back of his bald head, and by the fact that was knock-kneed.

Prisoner closely cross-cxamined all the police witnesses. He did not give evidence, but he addressed the jury, stressing the meagre nature of the "evidence of identification.