SEAMAN’S ESCAPADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 6

SEAMAN’S ESCAPADE

HID UNDER WOMAN’S BED INJURED IN LEAP FROM WINDOW [ Per Pr.-.ia Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 9. Found under a bed in the British Hoiei, Lyttelton, about midnight <n January 20, William Scott Lawson, a fireman from the Tainui, aged 27, jumped out of a windov/. This morn-’ ing Lawson pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to being unlawtuliy on the premises of the hotel. Lawson, who injured a leg in his jump came into Court on crutches. The case was adjourned unul March 2, Sub-Inspeclor Maclean telling Mr. Levvey that the Seamen’s Mission could probably put Lawson on board another ship for England alt-.- his treatment at the hospital Was finished in about a month. SubInspector Maclean said a woman guest in the hotel went to her bedroom and found her nightdress missing from under the pillow. She went to the licensee’s wife and got another. After getting ino bed the woman heard a movement under it, and then found Lawson there. Hurrying out of her room the woman locked the door an..’ called for the licensee, said the sub-inspector. When he went into the room the window was open and Lawson was lying on the footpath below. The nightdress which was missing was found pushed under a door of a garage nearby. “Why did the ship sail without him? We don’t want him here," said the magistrate. Sub-Inspector Maclean explained that Lawson had been injured and was taken to hospital. Lawson probably bad an ulterior motive lor visiting the hotel, the sub-inspector added.