MIDNIGHT VISITORS.
AND AN ARREST.
(Per Press Association— Copyright)
CHRISTCHURCH, July 6
Two men were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in a sensational affair at the Clarendon Hotel early yesterday" morning. A man and his wife who were staying in the hotel were awakened bv the fumes of chloroform.
They started up alarming a mysterious visitor or visitors who decamped leavng a, chloroform soaked handkeichief. The police found a revolver in the lavatory. Ati tho Police Court to-day, William Kenniard and Robert, Irwin Meachlen were charged that at Clarendon Hotel yesterday, they used chloroform with intent to commit a crime. The accused were remanded for a week.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1917, Page 3
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