FOUND DRUNK IN A STRANGE BED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 16

FOUND DRUNK IN A STRANGE BED

Magistrate’s Advice to Lad “He went to a dance in Sturdee Street where he consumed some whisky. At the conclusion of the dance he does not remember anything. He cannot say how he got to the bouse or how he came to be lying in the bed there,” said counsel for a motor-driver, aged 18, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, to a charge of being on enclosed premises at 38 Roxburgh Street on Saturday night. Accused, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon in 18 months by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M. For the police. Sub-Inspector C. E. Roach said on Saturday evening the occupants of the house went out to spend the evening with friends. They returned home at about 1.30 a.in., and the wife on going to the bedroom found the man asleep there. She called her husband. They could not get any sense out of him. He was in a drunken sleep He said that he had been to a party and that that was all he knew. Applying for the suppression of accused’s name, counsel said he had been in no trouble before. He came of respectable parents, and was very distressed about the whole of the circumstances. “I am going to suppress your name on account of the fact that you are only a lad,” Mr. Stilwell said. “If yon go out to parties and get drunk this is the net result. Bull yourself together.”