MAN UNDER BED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 6

MAN UNDER BED

-Press Association.)

Seaman Pleads Guilty to Entry oi Hotel

NIGHTGOWN MISSING

.(By Telegraph-

CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Found under a bed in the British Hotel, Lyttelton, about midnight on January 20, William Scott Lawson, a fireman from the Tainui, aged 27, jumped out of a window; this morning Lawson pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to being unlawfully on the premises of the hotel. Lawson, who was injure.d in the leg in his jump, came into Court on crutches. The case was adjourned until March 2, Sub-Inspector MacLean telling Mr E. C. Lawry, S.M., that the Se&men's Mission could probably put Lawson on board another ship f or England af tor his treatment at hospital was finished. Sub-Inspector MacLean said that a woman guest in the hotel went to her bedroom and found her nightdress missing from under the pillow. SEe went to the licensee's wife and got ano her. After getting into bed the woman heard a movement under it and then found Lawson there. Hurrying out of the rocm, the woman locked the door and called for the licensee. When he weot in o the room the window was open and Lawson was lying on the footpath below. The nightdress which was missing was found pushed under the door of a garage nearby, "Why did his ship sail without him? We don't want him h'ere." said the Magistrate. Sub-Inspector MacLean explained that Lawson had been injured and was taken to hospital. Lawson probably had an ulterior motive for visiting the hotel, the sub-inspector added.