FOUND UNDER A BED.
YOUNG MAN CHARGED WITH THEFT. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., March 15. While the occupants were absent on Sunday evening, a young man entered the dwelling-house of Mr J. B. Wilton, in Featherston Street. On returning, Mr and Mrs Wilton and their son noticed a dim light shining through the. glass hall door. Mr Wilton entered the house, lit the gas in two rooms, where a search proved unavailing. The intruder wan then found in an imlighted room, but his attempt to leave the house by the back door was frustrated. Mr. Wilton, with the'aid of a passer-by, who had an electric torch, searched the house, when a young man was' discovered under the bed in a front room. The police were called and the man was arrested. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning Michael Patrick Somers, aged 20, was charged with stealing from .the dwelling-house of Mr Wilton a silver chain and two silver pencils. The accused was remanded till Wednesday.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 March 1926, Page 7
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166FOUND UNDER A BED. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 March 1926, Page 7
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