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HOTEL THIEF. Gaol Sentence at Manjimup. MANJIMUP, Aug. 19.—In the Manjimup Police Court today, before Messrs. L. J. Rees and J. W. Marge- reson, J'sP., Norman Edward Senior, was sentenced to three months' im- prisonment on a charge of having stolen a suitcase and contents, valued at £5, the propery of Horace Charles Anderson. In evidence it was said that Sgt. Strachan had seen a man with a heavy green suitcase making labori- ous progress up the main street, and a search began for him when Ander- son reported that his suitcase had been stolen from his room at the hotel. Senior was arrested next day at Nyamup, 16 miles from Manji- mup.