STOLE 48 BOTTLES OF BEER FROM HOTEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 1

STOLE 48 BOTTLES OF BEER FROM HOTEL

SEAMAN FOR SENTENCE Charged with twice breaking into the Criterion Hotel at Otahuhu and stealing four dozen bottles of beer and six tumblers, Olaf Christian Kairlson, alias Carl August Klingsberg, alias Chris Carlson, was committed for sentence to the Auckland Supreme Court, this morning by Messrs. R. G. Todd and W. Brayson, J.P.’s, in the Otahuhu Police Court. Karlson was further charged with being found by night, without lawful excuse, in possession of an implement for house-breaking. It was reported that his previous record showed eight convictions for various offences, including theft, assault, breaking and entering, and default of maintenance. Charles Nicholson, a barman employed at the hotel, said that he was awakened about two o’clock in the morning on Sunday, November 25, by the barking of a dog and, on listening, heard the clink of bottles in the storeroom. He reported the to Constable Wilson, who arrested accused in the act of putting bottles of beer into a sugar bag. Constables "Wilson and Pollard stated that they visited a shanty in Papatoetoe occupied by Karlson and found six tumblers and 27 bottles of beer. Accused had nothing to say and, pleading guilty to the three charges, he was committed for sentence. On a further charge of failing to comply with the terms of a maintenance order issued at Rotorua he was remanded to appear in Auckland on December 12.