DRUNKEN MAN IN GIRL’S BEDROOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 9

DRUNKEN MAN IN GIRL’S BEDROOM

FINE IMPOSED r £'o Charles Leander Elmbranch, a man of 35, the events of yesterday afternoon are a complete blank. In the mind of a girl of 18, however, they will live for a very long time to come.

In the Police Court this morning the girl told the story to Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Elmbranch, whom she did not know except for the fact that he worked at a leadlight factory just across the street from where she lived, came to the front door yesterday evening about 6.30. “I told him my mother was out and that he couldn’t come in," she said. “He put his arms around me and kissed me on the cheek. I went out to the kitchen and he followed.” After the dishes had been washed up, she said, she suggested going to the pictures, thinking to get him out of the house. While she was dressing, however, he came to the door of her bedroom. She told him not to come in, but he took no notice and came in and lay down on her bed. She finally got him out into the street aud was walking down the road with him when she met two constables and gave him in charge. One of the constables told the court that Elmbranch was drunk when he arrested him.

“He was hanging round me once before, in Queen Stret, while I was waiting for a boy friend,” the girl told the Bench. “A policeman told him off.”

“He is very lucky he is not charged with something else,” commented the Magistrate.

idr. C- A. Snedden, who was in court, put in a good word for Elmbranch at this stage. He said that he had known him for quite a long time and had played cricket with him. He bore a good character and was all right except when he had drink on him.

The accused said that he had no recollection of what happened. “If you take out a prohibition order I won’t send you to gaol,” Mr. Hunt told him. “Fined £5 or 14 days.”