COURT CASES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1929, Page 2

COURT CASES

LONDON,- October 9 ORATORY SCENE.

- tall, well-dressed woman, described as Lilian Marv Talbot, aged 53, of independent means, giving an hotel address at Kensington, S.W., was charged at Westminister Police Court with nolesting and disturbing a priest at Rrompton Oratory. • Mr K. Macrae Moir, prosecuting, dated that ’the complainaint was the .lev. Father John Talbot. The woman ippeared io have assumed his name ■vjthout right. There was reason to beieve that her Teal name was Lilian Rigbv and that she was single. She had been writing peculiar letters to Mr Talbot and shouting and .rawling on occasion's.' * VA'pbWtteHfrth' Stated th’a't he was' caled to the Oratory on Saturday. On! die obtjthe woman'ran To 6ne of he* c'onreVsional boxes, prilled ‘operi ’tlip loors and shouted something to the iriest inside. •

Questioned by Mr Whiteways, de■end'ing,'the policeman stated that Taliot asserted that it was trumped-up ■barge and that efforts had been made or a long time to get. her arrested.

The woman was remanded for a medical report.

SCHOOLMASTER AT A FLAT. . William Augustin Havard, aged 25, a schoolmaster at Burnt wood School, OuterhanV, Surrey, was at Bow-street remanded on £2O bail on a' charge'of ittempting to break into Great Rus•ell mansions, Great Russell-street.; The charge was denied. ■ Mr William Gray, a fruit merchant, who occupies a flat at the mansions, said: that on Saturday night he saw Havard acting suspiciously in a doorway. Afterwards Havard began • to raise his dining-room window. His wife telephoned for the police and lie put a stick through the window and struck Havard on the face. Havard ran into the street and found the police there.

A police sergeant who arrested Hazard said that he told him lie thought tiie place was an hotel.

. ABSCONDING BUTLER. Francis Henman, alios Middleton, aged 35, formerly H) a butler, pleaded guilty atWestminister to the theft of a pearl and diamond tiepin valued at £45 the property of Mr Cachrane* Baillie. Detective-Sergeant Allen said that Henman was only two days in. Mr Coch-rane-Ballies service when he absconded. He tried to .pawn the tiepin, but .the pledge was refused and the property detained. Henman obtained the situation by a false character. He was sentenced to six months’ hard labour.

FATHER CHARGES SON. Allred Ovler, a son of Peter Oyler, of Malt House,.Lynsted, near Sittingbourne, Kent, was remanded on bail at Faversham yesterday charged with stealing his father’s car, valued . at £250, and three gallons of petrol. His brother stood as his surety. Mr Oyler, the father, who is a farmer, fruit merchant, and auctioneer, stated that he left the car in the garage on .Tuesday to go shooting. When he returned in the evening the car was gone. On Saturday he learned that his son and the car were at Ruiislip, Middlesex.