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At the Sheriff Court, Oban, Scotland, recently, Sheriff Chalmers sentenced Hugh Waugh, aged 25, a steel worker, stated to have been brought up at Blantyre and Wishaw, to three months’ imprisonment for breaking into the Alexandra Hotel, Oban, which was closed for the season, and stealing various articles, including keys, a flashlamp, tobacco pouch, matches, and a collecting box. Waugh’s story was that he wanted shelter from the lain. He gained access by a window, slept in the hotel all night, and had a bath. He broke into the hotel office, stole the articles, and then walked to Fort William, where he was apprehended. Waugh had previous convictions in Scotland and England for housebreaking and theft.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23054, 3 December 1936, Page 3
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