IN THE WRONG HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 15

IN THE WRONG HOUSE

j: RESULT OF WEDDING PARTY

For having been found without lawful excuse, but in circumstances not disclosing the commission of or the intent to commit any other offence, in a dwellingh6use in Boulcott Street, Harold William Edwin1 Gledstone, aged 28, a salesman, was fined £2, in default fourteen days? imprisonment by Mr. W. F. Stilwcll, S.M., in tho Magistrate's Court today. - . -

Sub-Inspector H. Martin said that a young woman-last night .found the accused asleep in her bed in an apart-ment-house in Boulcott Street. Theroom was in disorder, and it had cost about 25s or SOs to clean it up. It appeared that Gledstone was drunk at tho time, and he was taken to the Taranaki Street Police Station clad only in a blanket. . ■

.- Gledstone/told the Magistrate that he was very sorry. His explanation was that he had been celebrating tho wedding of a friend in a house immediately round the corner from the place where he had been found. Ho had no memory-of going into that place, and could not say whether he had wandered into the wrong house by mistake or whether some of the other men at the .party, all of whom' were ''fairly bright," took him into tho place as a practical joke. He would certainly pay for the damage done, and ho asked for the suppression of liis name, more for the sake of his mother than for his. own sake. :

In convicting and fining the accused Mr. Stilwcll remarked that the festivities of the party offered a possible explanation of tho. occurrence. The Magistrate would, not suppress tho name as ho considered that publicity was part of the punishment.