17 charges relating to his work for the Bank of Bermuda.

Todd, of 16 Pearman's Hill, Warwick, a former executive with the Bank of Bermuda was sent for trial recently at the end of a preliminary hearing at Magistrates' Court.

He faces four charges of false accounting, four charges of obtaining property by false pretences and five charges of stealing.

Todd is also jointly charged with Varnel Robert Curtis, of 6 St. Anne's Drive, Southampton, with false accounting.

He is also charged with Milton Samuel Woods, of 14 Old Road, Southampton, with false accounting and with Cecil Oliver Durham, of 16 Ramgoat Hill, Smith's, with false accounting.

Todd, Curtis and Woods have also been charged together with false accounting.

All the charges relate to the Bank of Bermuda.

SLEPT AT DERELICT HOTEL, MAN IS JAILED CTS Slept at derelict hotel, man is jailed A man fresh out of prison was yesterday sent back to jail for two months after taking shelter in the old Bermudiana Hotel.

Dion L. Burgess, 30, of Camp Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to trespassing on the property now owned by the Bermuda Financial Centre.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Duffy said Police were conducting an exercise at the property around 9.45 a.m. on November 4 when they found Burgess hiding in a closet.

Yesterday, Burgess told Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis he had no taxi fare on him and all the buses had stopped running.

"I was just staying the night and was going to move the next morning,'' he said.

Mr. Francis sent Burgess -- who was released from prison on October 28 for prowling -- back to prison for two months.

MAN ADMITS STEALING TO SUPPORT HABIT CTS Man admits stealing to support habit A 28-year-old St. George's man yesterday admitted defrauding and stealing to support his drug habit.

Lyndon Smith, of Wellington Street, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to stealing a $2,000 video camera from the Bible Assembly Church, stealing two Bank of Butterfield cheques from Linda Hill and making a false document through forgery.

When Police arrested Smith, he admitted the offences and told Police he committed them to support a heroin and cocaine addiction.

Duty counsel Miss Kim Williams requested a social inquiry report.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis ordered the report and ordered Smith to return to court on December 4.

Smith was released on $1,000 bail with a like surety.

MAN FINED $250 FOR SWEARING AT POLICE CTS Man fined $250 for swearing at Police Using offensive words at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital cost a 30-year-old Smith's Parish man $250 yesterday.

Alexander Mutzke, of Breeze Way Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to using offensive behaviour at the hospital's emergency department.

Police prosecutor Insp. Peter Duffy said Police were called to the hospital around 9.30 a.m. on November 4 because a man was being disorderly in the emergency room.

When Police tried to arrest Mutzke he swore at them.

When asked by Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis what prompted his behaviour, Mutzke replied: "I don't know. I was depressed.'' BOLTED FROM COURT BEFORE SENTENCING CTS Bolted from court before sentencing After hearing that he was going to be remanded in custody, a 29-year-old Pembroke man bolted from Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Dale E. Whitfield, of Fenton's Drive, was before Magistrate the Wor. Edward King for stealing, uttering, forgery and false pretences charges which occurred sometime between June and July of this year.

Around 10.30 a.m., when he was told that he was going to be remanded in custody at Westgate Correctional Facility, Whitfield bolted from courtroom number three, out of Magistrates' Court, and on to Parliament Street.

Two prison officers chased Whitfield up Parliament Street, across Church Street to Wesley Methodist Church where they finally caught up with him, handcuffed him, and took him back to court.

MAN MUST FORFEIT $5,000 CASH STASH CTS Man must forfeit $5,000 cash stash Hotel worker Craig Spencer, of Parsons Road, Pembroke, was ordered to forfeit $5,003 last week which US Customs officials found in his underwear.

He pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court on Thursday to attempting to export foreign currency without permission.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James said US Customs officers searched Spencer on July 7 around 1 p.m. and found the money in the front of Spencer's underwear, wrapped in toilet paper.

Spencer had claimed that he was only taking $3,000 -- the legal limit without Bermuda Monetary Authority approval -- out of the Island.

Spencer told Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis: "The money's mine. I worked hard for it. I was just going away to buy clothes.'' Spencer, who is a housekeeper at Stonington Beach Hotel, said he hid the money "for safety reasons'', adding he did not want to get robbed. Mr. Francis fined Spencer $1,000 and confiscated the $5,003. He was allowed to keep the $3,000.