Supreme Court GUILTY OF ROBBERY
Attack Op Man In Hotel
A Supreme Court jury yesterday found Alan Alexander Hamilton, aged 32, a painter, guilty of • robbing William Thomas Desmond Cowlishaw of a wallet and £24 10s in the Excelsior Hotel. Manchester street, on July 2.
Mr Justice Richmond remanded Hamilton (Mr M G L. Loughnan) in custody for sentence on Tuesday. The only defence witness called was Richard Harman, who gave evidence of talking to Hamilton in Manchester street after he had come out of the hotel. He said Hamilton was not carrying anything when he came out, and after talking with him for five or seven minutes, he went back to the hotel to find his friends.
Mr Loughnan submitted to the jury that Harman’s evidence accounted tor Hamilton’s movements during the short time he was out of the hotel after the attack on Cowlishaw and the robbery, and when he was alleged to have got rid of Cowlishaw’s wallet.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 7
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