The burglary trial of a Southampton man adjourned dramatically yesterday after a jury member collapsed in Supreme Court.

It is believed the juror had a pre-existing medical condition, possibly lupus or diabetes.

Bermuda Fire Service personnel rendered first aid to the juror until an ambulance took him to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

?Let us pray it is nothing serious,? Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves later told the remaining 11 jurors.

Coolridge Winslow Eve, 46, pleaded not guilty to stealing a $1,000 from a visitor?s wallet from a room at The Reefs on April 13, 2004.

Before the juror collapsed, Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrossen told the six-man, six-woman jury that Police had forensic evidence, a partial palm print, which placed Eve on the balcony of room 351 at the Reefs.

Mary Elizabeth Girvan, of Manchester, Massachusetts, told the jury she was staying at room 351.

?My husband and I had gone to dinner and watched TV for a while then went to bed,? Mrs. Girvan said. ?We decided to leave the door to the balcony open. The screen was closed but the glass doors were open.?

She said there was a balcony on the other side of the screen door. The screen door could not be locked and could easily be pushed aside, she said.

?The next thing I know, something woke me up,? she said. ?I sat up in bed and a man was standing five feet away from me. I could not see his face. I saw the alarm clock said 5.55 a.m.?

She said the intruder was not wearing gloves.

?What are you doing here?? she said she asked the intruder as she tried to wake her husband.

?The intruder just stood there and stared at me for what seemed like a long time,? she said. ?Then he turned around and went through the screen door and climbed over the balcony.?

Mrs. Girvan got out of bed and locked the glass sliding doors, she said.

Mrs. Girvan called hotel security, but the first member of staff from the hotel to arrive at their room was general manager Neal Stephens.

Mr. Stephens called the Police after speaking with the victims. No one went onto the balcony after her husband locked the balcony door, Mrs. Girvan said.

Mrs. Girvan directed Police to the balcony-railing which she saw the intruder touch.

?They looked over the whole railing,? she said. ?They had a brush with powder and tape.?

Her husband, Brian Girvan, said he had left his trousers resting on a sofa next to the balcony door.

Mrs. Girvan locked her valuables in a safe, however, her husband left his trousers close by because they were going to the airport the next day.

?At first, I didn?t think he took anything,? Mr. Girvan said. ?I thought we scared him off before he took anything.?

But he said his wallet was missing from his trousers. Inside the wallet was $1,000 in US currency and numerous credit cards and identification cards. Neither his wallet nor its contents were recovered, he said.

Mr. Stephenstestified that the room was at the edge of a cliff and overlooked a cove on the South Shore. The trial is expected to resume today.