BOLD, BAD BORELAND.

NZ Truth, Issue 127, 23 November 1907, Page 6

BOLD, BAD BORELAND.

A Midnight Marauder.

Undiluted love sometimes leads »■• •person into some strange situations. Hi landed Walter Frederick Boreland anto the criminal dock at the Sup- : fieme Court, Christchurch, on Moniday, when a strange tale was unfold- , ©d.. Borelandis a youth of : 19, is -a. ,j wainter, -and lives: with his grandmao- j fther at Linwood. He stood charged \ with burglary, having broken into the j idwelling^house of James 'Eaton i tßaynes, of Disraeli-street. .The plea- ( j»ntered by. B arris ter Donnelly was vaiot guilty. It appears that Boreland jfaiecame acquainted with the Haynes family a few years ago when, he as.teisted m painting their house at !M---fctiri'gton. He became . very, friendly jtfiththem and called often. When, kxladys Haynes, ' who is only 15 now, /.■Was "ill he used to visit her m her foedroom, which was all very well, Wt on the night of the 16th SespteinH ■ jfcer, at about 11, p.m., when the SHaynes family was m bed, he was Seized with aw uncontrollable impulse bfco enter the dwelling. Tfce -window Mras slightly open. He lifted it up, nfalked along the passage and) entered • sfcbe girl's room. She slept m a- bed *y herself, but, there were two > other «embers of the-family, sleeping m an--: jfti&er bedim the same loom. Ksoieelr atjjjr:' doiwi alongside Oladys* bed the tactful louse placed his hand uaderaueiktk Jttie bedclotfies, gently, .pulled' Kfce «irr«.-nij?b't>«own i up and put his iHah,d<m btv lee. This woke licr up , , £*id' seem« the form of somfebody m fijbe room -she screamed. Whereupon ftfce preciows scallywag » Borelai>d deiisumped. He went out along the pas-. arid through the window toy vtiiich »c: entered. .The sirl'-s father at^oSce far.o^e". to seewhat the "teoubfe; was afcput and searched tlie -house, wrtKout ccsult. .Then he saw. tbe" front win«fow wide (open. 'Also toe found a | iwiiafore and a red feaadkerchief (which . belon'Sed'to nciibdy' m AheJiouse.^ ,The • /itandkerchiei: served to : fevPUTi Bt'ACKGiIia:RD^BPREOCND: ! I*'- : - • • : . - AWAY, :'■■■•■' : ■ : : »*nd when, taxed with '"Sties offence by/ HActing-"Tec. Kennedy, he gave; Way. j admitted it. At the? Police-fSta- j iftioh he offered to make a stateßßient J ftand it was taken down.it'-f ' ' . ; [- "I live at 27 Heretoacl-sitreet, '-ZAn- ! Wood. I remember .the 16th. of. Sep- ! itember. .At a little after IB "p.-mj. I iw.as passing- Haynes'' iiouse- I went fro the front window and , saw. thiat it ; )was two inches open, arid liftetf it-; aip. I walke<l along the passage 'and^ pthen entered the bedroom of G4^dy,s i BHaynes. Then I put my, hand un^der j %h& , .-bedclothes and she .cried buib,. ! so tt siipped into the passa-ge again, and, out through the <winidow., The fftiandkerchief and pinafore are urine. iff had the pinafore round my neck to Sceep out the cold, liook out. the 'handkerchief to blow my nose, and iifihe pinafore dropped off. I jdon't I went into Haynes' Jhouse night ; some kind of temptation came over me, and I cried when; I got jfoome. I truly love the , (girl Gladys ('Haynes, have always, lovcd^ the ,'Kiri, and I don't know why I did' it." Now, what idea .was m. that young fellow's anind when he entered, that jfibuse and walked into a room where 'ttliree of the family wece slecyiijg? -iThe girl, young as she was, no doubtpossessed a, Icertain aQWuht of- , fasr-j ><'ihat : idh for Bqre'/and, who appears ■rto have been in'Aicted witW those morbid tendencies, whicii make tljiemselves manifest during, ascertain'period of youth. Crown .Prosecutor jfitrihger,' ' X.C:, m addressing 1 the , ; tjury, said that ."iilie prisoner may have ! vßone to the house 'to molest the girl <«r he roily not. ."If they believed what Ithe girl said, fhat he touched her, iitl»at eoristitutf/r an offence— that of assault. /

The sir 1 intfce course of her eviiflejfce, said tfjaii she had no : idea 1 , of Ithe identity of the intruder. She, (wore a nigy.ri7go.wn and it was shifted up and she/ felt a hand touch her leg above* the icnee. She screamed, and shouted. .""Mum," and the man' cleared o/at. . . -

• In repfy to Mr Donnelly, the fiess s/id that Boreland. used to spend 4 sod deal of time at their house, aaid she had spoken fco him m her bettroom when ill. ,-,, 53he didn't think h« would do any h'artn to her any. time. Jamies Eaton Waynes, a , carpenter at Addifigton 'workshops,, also gave and. counsel addressed, the ijury, cdntentfiag that there was no criminal intention on B<*reland's part, ©ut the jury weren't long m comirfg Ito the cgeoclusipn that thfJ hold mid£igfct <^ve7to>akiDS loony., whose ob-

jectiye was sleeping beauty, .had committed burglary at least. He was ordered to stand down until Wednesday morning. 1 Wh,en Boreland was brought up for sentence on Wednesday morning Mr Justice Chapman gave him a long lecture and ordered him to come up for sentence when called upon. He .was also ordered to pay, the costs of the prosecution. ,