Arrested In Bed

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 5

Arrested In Bed

Stewart Island and was staying at the same house as the old man, was apprehended shortly afterwards and charged with murder. He was in bed when arrested and was taken to Bluff. It is stated that on the Tuesday evening following the Saturday on which Valentine arrived at the island, he and the old man had played cards till about midnight, apparently on the most friendly terms, and that nothing was amiss when they retired for the night. Mrs. Walschleger, who is well over 60 years of age, had retired some timebefore, and slept in the front room on the left-hand side of the downstairs portion of the house. Valentine, it appears, slept in the room situated on the opposite side of the passage, whilst Josey occupied a small cubicle, measuring scarcely more than eight feet by seven, partitioned off from the remainder of a long, narrow upstairs room by a pitchpine screen. The narrowness of Josey's quarters may be judged from the fact that his small bed fitted almost exactly into one end of the tiny apartment. His bed was of the variety seen a good deal in the country districts —