LODGERS DISTURBED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 58, 31 May 1927, Page 13

LODGERS DISTURBED

MAN WITH A CANDLE EARLY INTRUDER FINED stairs creaked in a Grey Street boarding house yesterday morning, and a man carrying a lighted candle stepped up on to the landing and tried the handle of the nearest door. TT was locked. The one next door A was likewise impassable, without the occupant’s permission, or a good deal of noise, so the mysterious disturber of the boarders’ slumbers knocked on the third door along the passage. “Who’s there?” came in startled tones from within, followed by the opening of a door as the occupant of the room came out to investigate. The man with the lighted candle, a 3 far as has since been ascertained, was not investigating the truth or otherwise of Police Commissioner MeIlveney’s allegation against Grey Street. All he wanted was a man named Jim Ryan. He had a bottle of whisky in his pocket and had called at that somewhat unconvential hour to give him a drink. No one in the house knew Jim Ryan so Constable Dunn was sent for, to see what he knew about it. The constable didn’t know Jim Ryan either, but he did know that Patrick McGuerin, for such was the name of the man with the candle, had no right to be there at that hour of the morning. In the Police Court this morning it was said that McGuerin, who’s Christian name indicates the land of his birth, was “under the influence,” but sober enough to know what he was doing. McGuerin said that he worked on buses as a mechanic. , He was fined 40s or seven days.