THEFT FROM HOTEL

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 10

THEFT FROM HOTEL

MAN SENT TO GAOL

"This man has a very long list of convictions) for theft and other offences," said Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, when sentencing Hugh Johnston, alias Thomas Woods, a seaman, aged 37, to six months' imprisonment on a charge of stealing .two suits of clothes and a clock, of a total vallie of £11 ISs (id, the property of William Herlihy.

Sub-In«pcctor Roach paid that the wife of the licensee of the Panama Hotel heard a noise in the room occupied by . the barman-portor, ami on investigating found the accused in the room. He hnd a clock under his" arm, and there were two suits of clothes lying on tho bed ready for him to take away;