WATCHING A WOMAN

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1932, Page 3

WATCHING A WOMAN

<EARLY MORNING ARREST. PLASTERER BEFORE COURT. AUCKLAND, March 8. Arrested this .morning when found lying under the verandah of a house in Nelson'Street, Harry William Thomas Jones, aged 35, a plasterer, later appeared at the Police Court charged withvbeing found without lawful excuse . o.i em lo.std promisi s. „Jlo was further charged with the theft of a copper boiler, valued at Cl. on December 7. Jones denied both charges. ..Evidence was given by the arresting constable that when lie asked Jones what-he was doing under the verandah, he explained that he was watching a woman with whom he had previously lived. Detective Sergeant Kelly: The woman of whom he speaks has had two children to- accused, and they are both in ithe care of the State. Evidently he has .been trying to get back to the woman. The partnership will have to be dissolved. Jones: We are parted. She is working at the house now. I have been ill ancl last week she wrote to me and asked me if I wanted anything, so I went round last night to see her. Respecting the theft charge, two witnesses said they went to inspect a house in ' Hayden Street on December 7, and they found Jones .'removing a copper boiler, which he bad wrapped up with sacking. : Jones told the magistrate that a man named Jackson asked him to repair the brickwork around the copper, and he had merely removed the copper for safe y keeping. “That’s your story, is it?” asked Mr F. I\. Hunt, S.M. ‘‘Ever seen Jackson before or since?”—“No.” .Mr Hunt: Well, I don’t believe you. You are convicted. The magistrate said he would give

Jones a chance. He was convicted on loth charges and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. “You keep away from that woman,” Mr Hunt warned Jones.