STRUCK WITH A SANDBAG

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 October 1922, Page 5

STRUCK WITH A SANDBAG

■ A DUNEDIN INCIDENT '.(United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. As an .outcome of the (Ivand Hotel episode, in which the racehorse owner Wrn. Henry Ballinger was struck: on the head while asleep in a .bedroom, a young man, , : . Vivian Jones, was arrested and charged • ■• this morning with breaking and entering, with intent to commit a crime. Mr Ballinger, when he retired to bed on Wednesday night, found the key of his room missing. He was awakened at 2.30 by a blow with a sandbag. He jumped out of bed, colliding with the person, who escaped down the fire escape. Detectives found the key of the room in accused’s pocket. Accused stated he had gone to the Grand in the evening and taken the key from a room in the upper storey. Returning early in the morning, he entered the room and a man in bed woke up and accused hit him with a sock filled with soil. Accused pleaded guilty. The Chief Detective stated he was nbt long out from* the Borstal Institute, where he had been committed for break- • ing and entering at Wellington. After pleading, accused expressed a desire for bail, wishing to get married. He was committed for sentence, had jbeing refused. • \*