BUTLER'S £200 DRINKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

BUTLER'S £2OO DRINKS

THEFT FROM PEER'S CELLAR Sentence of two months' imprisonment was passed on Philip Hugh Gray, aged 24, a butler, at Marvlebone recently for stealing wines and spirits, valued at £2OO, from Lord Tweedmouth's residence in Seymour Street, Byranston Square, London, since July, 1931. A detective said that Gray had been employed as a butler and footman to various private families in London. He entered tht service of Lord Tweedmouth in January. 1931, part of his duty being to look after the wine cellar. Recently the wines and spirits referred to in the charge were missed. According to prisoner's own statement he had consumed them all himself. The magistrate: Is there any reason to suppose that is not true? —No. The officer added that since Gray's arrest jewellery worth £IOO had been missed from the safe at Lord Tweedmouth's house. Prisoner had had charge of that safe, and inquiries showed that he had displayed some of the missing articles in the presence of guests whom he had entertained in the pantry. What had happened to the jewellery was a mystery, because Gray admitted taking only one article, a bracelet, and the police could find no evidence whatever against him.