UNWELCOME INTRUDER GETS 14 DAYS’ GAOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 13

UNWELCOME INTRUDER GETS 14 DAYS’ GAOL

FOUND IN GIRL’S ROOM Press Association. DANNEVIRKE, Monday. Fourteen days’ gaol without the option was the sentence imposed upon Thomas Lane Pennicott, alias Taylor, who appeared before justices this morning charged with being found without lawful excuse in a servant’s room of the Club Hotel at Dannevirke. Accused, who is a married man, came from Palmerston North on Saturday to see a girl working at the hotel. His attentions were unwelcome but he persisted in annoying the girl, who complained to the police. When spoken to accused promised to return to Palmerston North immediately, but did not go, and continued to annoy the girl who, to get rid of him, promised to go to the pictures with him. Later the accused was found by the girl’s friend in complainant’s room, and was arrested. Defendant said that he had only gone to the girl’s room to try and be friends. When the police arrived he was on the point of going to book up for the night, he said. Pennicott was given 14 days’ gaol without the option of a fine, and remanded to Auckland on a charge of failure to maintain his child.