ILLEGED BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 5

ILLEGED BREACH OF THE LICENSING ACT.

Before Mr R. Beetham, S.M., at the MagijetraAe'a Court vestcrday, Emma Agnes Tooaer, licensee ef the Star and Garter Hotel, was charged mth having permitted dronkennesa on her. licensed, premieee, on ih» 24fcb of January last, and with having •oW l%nor to one Thomas Vesey, who trae then h a, state of drunkenness. .John Wood, a Borwood dairyman, who enploy»d Veeey, deposed tliat on the date ..in queSon : he waited on Harold Toomer, •> ion « the Kceneee, and aeked him why "5 Kwejeo much drink to men in charge of a horje end cart. Toomer replied that t» had afced them io gt>, bub they refused. WitJJjee t»ok Vesey home.. Vesey waa vexy iU A\ day, Witnees went to the hotel in «»e •fterncun.'nind told Harold Toomer that if the sami tiring happened again h* would iayaa infihnation. iliOß. Bwia, daSrymaa, gave eimilar evidence. . ' * ■ Thomae Vwey, labourer, was sworn, but juet at the: moment one of the young Xoomers wa» seised with a fit. ; Mr Joynt,who appeared for the defend•arte, applied for an adjounanent, on the ground that te. eufferw would be unable to_give rebabi evidence. • His Worafrip decided to go on with tho tridenoe, and to take Toomer's evidence •Jterwards. The witness, ontinning, said that on the Kmrning in question fa© had a glass of beer •t the SoutlierniCross, and a whisky and w ' * whia: - r at tlie star and barter, tteoniy had two Irinks at the latter place, ted wae perfectly solwr when he left the note!, though he "took bad" on the rood «K>me, an hour ant, a quarter after leaving the Stotf and Gartr. Witness was under the influence of drifc at the time the other man took charge ofki, ca rt. There would. Bβ noUiing in the ajpeiirance or manner of the wrtaesa in the Et«l which would lead Wiyone to suppose ie luid taken liquor. He was sxtk and geneally "off colour".that morning. Wilkm Murphy gate evidence, and the •Uβ was adjourned unil the 17th met.