UNLAWFULLY IN HOTEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 10

UNLAWFULLY IN HOTEL.

CLERK IN TROUBLE.

THREE MONTHS TOR VAGRANCY. "WELL AND TRULY KNOWN" Pleading that he wa« in constant employment, James Arthur Beid, (45),. denied in the Police Co.urt thi 3 morning that he was an idle and disorderly person. He admitted, however that he had been found without lawful' excuse in the British Hotel on Thursday evening' last. 'An employee at the hotel, Nancy Williams, stated that she had heard accused walking round upstairs. He went' out but came back later and said he "wanted to see the proprietor. v; The proprietor, Mr. B. Langley, gaid the accused had no right on the hotel premises. When witness saw Beid. he said he was waiting for a friend. Ho could not supply the name of the'friend however. 1 Detective Sergeant Martin said accused had no money in his possession but he was carrying a bottle of beer' and a pound of butter. Beid said he had been in one job for nine months. He went to the hotel'to see Mr. Langley and ask him if his' license was to be transferred to another hotel. Wjhile there he had gone up. stairs and washed his hands. ' . "This man is well and truly knowh said Detective Sergeant Kelly in handing accused's list up to Mr. E. C.'Cutten S.M. The detective sergeant added that Beid was now before the Court for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly, as he had been ordered to come up for sentence on such a charge three or four months ago. The property of hotel guests was not safe if men wereto be. allowed to wander around and enter their rooms. Accuscd was convicted and sentenced' to a month's imprisonment for being on the hotel premises, and, sentenced to three months on the old-standing idle and disorderly charge.