WOMAN AND INTRUDERS
WHISPERING IN THE DARK. James William Jamieson, 21, labourer, was at Brighton Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour for breaking and entering Downs Hotel, Woodingdean, Brighton, and stealing jewellery and money valued at £35. Arthur Samson, 23, labourer was sentenced to 15 months’ hard labour for breaking and entering the hotel and receiving from Jamieson property knowing it to have been stolen. The men were arrested on Southend front. They had occupied lodgings at Southend for three days. After they had gone the landlady discover-
ed in a drawei' in, a room they had used a ring and a tie-pin. Miss Palmer, daughter 1 of the licensee of the hotel, said that on the night of September 8 she was awakened by the noise of a dressing-table drawer being opened in her room. ; In the darkness she saw two figures in the room. They were whispering together. One said something about a movement being heard, and the voice added, “Shoot her.” “I was very frightened,” added Miss Palmer, “and I lay quite still. When the men had gone I informed the police.” Latei’ she found finger marks on a bathroom windowsill.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1932, Page 6
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