MAN. IN HIS BED
BOARDER'S DISCOVERY
The story of how a young man staying in a Wellington boarding-house arrived home to find another man in occupation of his bed was told before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, when Eobert John Percival, a butcher, aged 38, was charged with being found ' unlawfully on premises at 83 Koxburgh Street on August 28. Evidence called revealed that a room-mate of the boarder concerned first noticed, the man in his friend's bed. The intruder spent the night there, and the first thing he asked the room-mate in the morning was whether breakfast was served in the room.
The accused was remanded for .one week for medical examination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 4
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118MAN. IN HIS BED Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 4
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