Woman Finds Mail Under Bed

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 35, 11 February 1937, Page 9

Woman Finds Mail Under Bed

INTRUDER JUMPS OUT OF WINDOW CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 9. Found under a bed in the British Hotel, Lyttelton, übout midnight on January 110, William Scott Lawson, a fireman from the Tainui, aged twentyseven, jumped out of the window. Lawson pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of being unlawfully on the premises of the hotel. Lawson, who injured a leg in his jump, came into court on crutches. The caso was adjourned until March 2, Sub-Inspector Maclean telling Mr. E. G. Levvey, S.M., that the Seaman’s Mission could probably put Lawson on board another ship for England, after his treatment at the hospital was finished in about a month. Sub-Inspector Maclean said that a woman guest in the hotel went to her bedroom and found her nightdress missing from under her pillow. She went to the licensee’s wife and got another. After getting into bed the

woman heard a movement under it and then found Lawson there. Hurry--1 ing out of the room, the woman locked 1 the door and called for the licensoe. ' When the licensee went into the room the window was open and Lawson was lying on the footpath below. The ’ missing nightdress was found pushed under the door of a garage nearby. “Why did the ship sail without him? 1 We don’t want him here,” said the Magistrate. Sub-Inspoctor Maclean explained that Lawson had been injured and was taken to hospital. Lawson probably had an ulterior motive for visiting the hotel, the Sub-Inspector added;