MAN IN BED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27112, 21 June 1949, Page 4

MAN IN BED

MATERNITY HOME SURPRISE TRANSFERRED TO POLICE CUSTODY

CHRISTCHURCH, June 20.

When a nurse entered a vacant room at the Essex Maternity Home shortly after 5 o’clock yesterday morning she found a man lying in a bed in the room. She notified the police, who arrested him because they thought that a police cell was a far better place' for his confinement than a maternity home. The man was in a very drunken condition. '' 11 This was the description given by Sub-inspector G. H. L. Holt in the Magistrate’s Court to-day of the events leading In the appearance in court of John Faulkner Holt, aged 31,, a labourer. Holt pleaded guilty to a charge of being, found without lawful excuse but in Circumstances that did not disclose the commission of or intent to commit any other offence on the enclosed premises of the Essex maternity home. Asked if he had anything to say, Holt said he would like to ask for his name to be suppressed. ■ The magistrate. Mr Rex C. Abernethy: You might ask for it, but you won’t get it. Leave drink alone and keep out of trouble. . , Holt was fined £5.