YOUNG MAN’S OFFENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 6

YOUNG MAN’S OFFENCE

■ 1 ♦■ ■■ WITHOUT LAWFUL EXCUSE IN HOTEL ARMED WITH BLUDGEON l United Free# Amnolilmnl WELLINGTON, 14th April, j A young man who climbed through j the window of a hotel bedroom in j which a young woman was sleeping I with a bludgeon in his possession came before Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M.. n the Magistrate’s Court to-day. He was John James Kenny, painter, aged 22, and he admitted two charges of being deemed a rogue and a vagabond in that he was armed W’ith a bludgeon with felonious intent, and that he was found by night, without lawful excuse, in the Taita Hotel. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle, who prosecuted, said Kenny was fortunate that he was delected by a hotel porter, or he might have been charged with a more serious offence. For approximately nine months, the accused u'as on friendly terms with a young lady employed as a waitress at the Taita Hotel. About six weeks ago she terminated the friendship owing to the quarrelsome nature of the accused when under the influence of liquor, and she told him that she did not want to see him again. He was not satisfied with that, and he continued to annoy the girl by ringing her up on the telephone at the hotel. On one occasion, when a porter answered the telephone. he said: “I will do for her sooner or later.” Kenny was convicted and fined £5, in default one month’s imprisonment, on one charge, and on the other he w'as convicted and ordered to come up for | sentence if called upon w'ithin 12 months.