THEFT FROM HOTEL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 13 November 1947, Page 4

THEFT FROM HOTEL

FORMER HOUSEMAID 12 MONTHS’ PROBATION Arrested in Gladstone road yesterday morning by Detective-Sergeant R. H. Waterson, Violet Alma Clement, aged 30, married, was charged in the Gisborne Police Court in the afternoon before Messrs. G. D. Muirhead and J. Campbell, J.P.s, with the theft at the Masonic Hotel of property valued at US Bs. belonging to D- J. Barry, Limited. Clement, on pleading guilty, was admitted to probation for 12 months. Detective-Sergeant Waterson stated that yesterday morning he was approached by Henry Findlay, proprietor of the Masonic Hotel, who stated that a young woman, then walking along Peel street, had taken a number of articles from the hotel that morning. Detective-Sergeant Waterson apprehended the accused in Gladstone road and on opening the suitcases she was carrying found several articles, among them being a tea towel, a face towel, a blue overall, two glasses, a water bottle, a milk jug, a tankard, two cups a bed spread and 19 cakes of soap. The remainder of the articles were in a suitcase detained at the hotel. In a statement made at the police station Clement admitted taking the articles from the Masonic Hotel. She had been employed at the hotel for the past week as a housemaid and on leaving there yesterday morning had taken the articles mentioned.