BURGLAR IN A BEDROOM.
Housekeeper Roughly Handed.
Patrick Walsh was charged at the Palmerston Nortn Police Court on Thursday before Messrs h. Simmons and T. Mason, J. P.’s, with breaking and entering the residence of R. Guy, at Tokomaru. Margaret Stevens, housekeeper at R. Guy’s boarding house gave evidence to the effect that about 2 a.m. a man who was not a boarder, had entered her bedroom with a piece of candle in his hand. Witness toid him that he had made a mistake, thinking he was a boarder, who had come in late and mistaken his room. The man approached her, caught her by the and threw her down by the side of the bed, telling her to keep quiet. A struggle took place, and the man said that there were four men outside, and if one- of them had been there he would have cut her throat. One of the boarders called out to know what was the matter, and the man left. She recognised accused as the man. Accused "was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Palmerston North*
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 29 February 1908, Page 3
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187BURGLAR IN A BEDROOM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 29 February 1908, Page 3
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