NOCTURNAL VISITOR

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 26

NOCTURNAL VISITOR

Hotel Bedroom Entered While Guest Slept MAN BEFORE MAGISTRATE Accused of a noctural theft, from an hotel bedroom in which a guest was sleeping. :i man brought before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday chose to stand his trial by jury rather than bo dealt with summarily. The man was John William Graves, labourer, aged 22. He was charged with stealing £l/17/3 in money, a pocket knife valued at 2/G and a wallet valued at 5/-, from James Allison Kelly. After the hearing of evidence front Kelly, the case was remanded until Wednesday. Kelly, a company representative, said he was staying at a private hotel in Cuba Street. About 5-45 a.m. on Thursday, he heard a noise in his room. He sat up in bed and saw a man crouching at the foot of his bed. The man ran out of the door and he heard him go up to the second floor. A door banged. Witness said Mie man had had an electric torch, similar to one produced in court. Later, as the result, of inquiries. he went to another room and saw the torch lying on the dressing table. There was a man in bed with the blankets pulled over his head. He missed notes and silver from his poc-ket-book, as well as a pocket knife and a wallet. At an identification parade witness identified accused out of about nine persons as the man he had seen in his room.