BREAKING AND ENTERING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2494, 17 October 1922, Page 4

BREAKING AND ENTERING.

EPISODE IN AN HOTEL. DUNEDIN, Oct. 13. As ait outcome of the episode at an hotel ill which the racehorse owner. Mr Wit Main Henry Ballinger, was struck on the bead while asleep in his bedroom, a young man, Vivian Jones, was arrested and charged this morning with breaking and eniering, with intent to commit a crime. Ballinger, when he retired to bed on Wednesday night, found the key ol It is room missing. He was awakened til 2.30 by a blow with a sandbag and jumped out of hod, colliding with a person, who escaped down the lire escape. A detective found the key of the room in accused's pocket. Accused stated that he had gone to the hotel in the evening, and taken the key front a room in the upper storey. Returning early in the morning, he entered the room. The man in bed woke tip, and accused. struck hint with a sock filled with soil. Accused pleaded guilty. The chief detective staled that accused was not long out from the Borstal Institute, where lie was committed for breaking and entering in Wellington. After pleading, accused expressed a desire for hail, stating that lie wished to get. married. lie was committed for sentence, but bail was refused.