NOISL IN THE BLDRQOM

NZ Truth, Issue 1078, 22 July 1926, Page 9

NOISL IN THE BLDRQOM

When Mclntosh Rushed For The Bar!

(From *"Truth's"^ Special Auckland Rep.) IT is a well-known fact that the sen- * sation of another person being m a rco'm will often aWaken a sleeper. WHATEVER it was that awakened E. H. Cucksey, the licensee of • the .Prince Arthui' Hotel, about 2 a.m., -he- woke up very much with the impression that someone was., m the room, and he saw. a figure m the corner where he hangs his .clothes. ' ; ; "What do you want?" he in-' /quired, but there was no answer. Cucksey, being a man <of ' action, hopped out of bed arid went for? the! intruder, who quickly, made off." . The uninvited .visitor might, have made his escape, out he did what? so many doiri life— he. took the wrong turning! .V- , ; ' y-j. '•" ; : :> ■ *"■ Perhaps- it wa,s- force of habit,\ but he made for the bar, which— f as it; happened— was a.dead ; endV. Cucksey was. n.ot.far behind, and he. made 'no i mistake ; about.' grabbing his man; > to. njakje'i.ar'v 6er ; tainty. .Of . it- he' -threw him on the floor. ■> " ;. -j ■'.; A short struggle followed until a boarder and the hotel porteraroused by the disturbance — came >to his assistance, and they held . on tp^their man. while the proprietor rang up the police. ' Constable Smith was soon on the spot, and he searched the prisoner, Who turned out to be one Andrew Robert Mclntbsh. He gave his age as 24; he had recently. come up from Arapuni. " . - , A "Gin Crawl" . Taken to the police station, the accused made a statement which went to show ■-', that he 'had been on what is often known as a 1 "gin; crawl" around the town the previous day, and was out late that night looking for a man with whom he had been ' drinking earlier m the evening. . The landlord had made a mistake m grabbing him. It was a man who had run past him while he. was looking .foi\ his friend who was. the real offender, but he had been collared by mistake. ' Mclntosh was -brought before Magistrate Poynton 'at the > Auckland Magistrate's Court last week. . ' The two charges against him /were, that he was a rogue and a vagabond, being found on the premises of the Prince Arthur Hotel without lawful excuse, • and with stealing £ 3 15s *m cash, the property, of Cucksey. The Bench ;bestowed six months on Mclntosh on the first charge and three months on the other— to , be concur-cent-^and, the. man from Arapuni left :he box looking very dejected.