BOARDING-HOUSE INCIDENT
"I don't propose to treat the matter as seriously as some cases which are brought under similar charges," said Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today after hearing evidence relating to charges against John Richard Eosedale Hyder, steelworker, aged 39, of being found in premises without lawful excuse and of wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at 12s 6d. . . , : | A Tasman Street boarding-house proprietor said that when he and his wife returned from the pictures after 11 p.m. on Saturday they found the accused asleep on a couch in the house. When aroused he appeared under the influence of liquor, and said he had ccme for a bed. Witness helped him to his feet, and he walked towards the door. On his way out, however, he lurched and smashed a pane of glass valued at 12s 6d. The accused's explanation was that he went in to get a bed for the night. Finding no one there, he sat down on the couch to wait and fell asleep. On the way out he tripped over a mat in the porch, and .fell against the window. On the first charge he was fined £1, in default three days' imprisonment, and on the second he was convicted and ordered to pay for the damage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 11
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217BOARDING-HOUSE INCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 11
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