SMASHED WINDOWS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 221, 12 May 1932, Page 6

SMASHED WINDOWS

scene at "hotel MAN ATTEMFTS TO VORCB ENTRANCE TO GSflL'S • BEDROOM. DRINKING METHYLATED SPIRITS The window-breaking penchant appears to have arriyed in Rotorua at last. When Wilfred Larsen visifed a lady friend late iit night and under the influep^e of Jlqpor, he was refused admission. Insteacl dl accepting his dismissal, howeverfv'he drovt ]us 'through both of her bedroom windows.* The lady naturally gave the alarm, and Larsen -was later arrested in Eruera Street, drunk, and in possession of some of her property which he had removed from the room. As a result of this performance, Larsen made his appearance before Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday morning charged with drunkenness, theft, and committing wilful mischief . He pleaded guilty to all three char-

ges. Senior-S'ergt. Carroll said that at 11.30 o'clock on Tuesday night, Larsen had gone to a private hotel in the town and had demanded admiUance to the bedroom of one of the waitress- | es with whom he was friendly. When the girl refused, he drove his fist through the window and attempted to get into the room. He found that one broken window was insufficient, kowever, so he broke another. The girl, however, seized an opportunity to escape and give the alarm, with the result that when Larse i finally got intd the room he found that she was gone. Apparently Larsen then removed a quantity of jewellery, which was found in his possession when he was later found by two constables in Eruera Street. He was very drunk at the time. Drinking Methylated, Larsen had been aboui: Rotorua i'or some time on relief work and. hau been sleeping at the doss-liouse. Ht had come into court the previous day *and voluntarily taken out a prohibition order against himself, but apparently he had been drinking methy lat*d spirits, A quuu'ity of th s-ar-'it was found 'v hN v.fl «. n arrested. Tio • » Imf. »;• hn ' work to go to that day if he was nnt sent to prison. However, the rnnn. had created a most unseemly sc-nr and had plaeed the girl in a very difTi cult position with her employers. Asked whether he had anvthing t: say, Larsen said he was guilty of al1 three charges. He had had a job to go to at five o'clock that morning, and could still obtain work, if given the oportunity. "Apparently you "had sufficion' snnse of repponsR.n-H* to t**v nrsd VL yourself togoi'i, r :,v • ! :>1 • voluntary prohibition nrd'r." sa* 1 ; "• magistrate, addressing th-^ accused "I do not propose to send you to pri son but will give you a chance to work out your own reformation. Yo' will be plaeed on probation for r period of three years on conditiorthat you take out and maintain.dur ing that period a prohibition ordm You will also be ordered to pay the sum of 30s damages."