PROWLER AT WINDOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20570, 22 May 1930, Page 15

PROWLER AT WINDOW.

HOUSEHOLD DISTURBED.

MAN GIVEN 14 DAYS IN GAOL.

[BY TELEG It API! • —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Wednesday.

A married man, Benjamin Holmes, aged 35, was charged in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day with being found by night on enclosed premises. Evidence was given by a young woman that on a recent evening sho heard a noiso outside the kitchen window. She pulled up the blind and saw accused close to the window.

In a statement to tho police, accused said he was some distance from the window. lie used the section as a short cut to intercept his brother. Accused admitted he had been drinking.

j The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said he was thoroughly convinced that accused's act was that of a half-drunken prowler who was peeping through the window. Tho house was a small one in an isolated position, and was occupied by a woman and her daughter. The woman's husband was absent at work during the week Mr. Wilson said women living in this manner had to bo protected. There was only one way to do it, and that was by imprisonment. Accused was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment.