"WENT TO STEAL"
SHOCK FOR MAYORESS MAN IN HER BEDROOM A man who was found in the bedroom of the Mayoress of Monmouth was sentenced by tho Monmouth Bench to six months' hard labour. Ho was Thomas Henry Mansell, aged 2:5, of Tipton, Staffordshire, and he pleaded guilty to charges of stealing L'2 from a bedroom at the Barley Mow Inn. Monmouth, and to being in a bedroom at the residence of the Mayor and Mayoress of Monmouth for an unlawful purpose. He asked that a charge of theft in Worcestershire should be taken into consideration. The Mayoress, Mrs. Howard Bowen, said that she was going to her children's bedroom and got the shock of her life to see a strange man in her room. He was bending over an open drawer of a dressing table. There was a considerable amount of money and other articles of value in the room. Subsequently she picked Mansell's photograph from a number shown her by the police. 3ii a statement to Detective-Constable David Thomas with reference to the Mayoress' bedroom, Mansell was alleged to have said, "I admit I went up there to see what I could steal."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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