MAID GIVES ALARM
HOTEL PROWLER GIVEN CHANCE HAb BEEN DRINKING A stariled housemaid in an upstairs room of a city hotel yesterday gave a sudden alarm when she saw the door open and a hand reach in slowlv. Richard Maskell was ‘ arrested arid given a chance by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court this morning, Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army, promising to look after him. Maskell, a painter, aged 36, pleaded guilty to being found on the enclosed premises of a city hotel. “I had been drinking,” he explained. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said accused opened a door upstairs in the hotel and reached in, drawing out a box of little value which had been standing on the floor. A housemaid who was in the room, gave the alarm, "flie man had had some drink, but knew what he was doing. “He has not been before the court since 1921 when he was up on a charge of breaking, entering and theft,” added the sub-inspector. “There have been a number of thefts from hotels recently." Maskell was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon. He was ordered to pay witnesse’s expenses of 30s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 11
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202MAID GIVES ALARM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 11
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