CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE.
STRONG REMARKS FROM THE BENCH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Reefton, November 21. In a licensing case heard before the Stipendiary Magistrate to-day, of serving liquor to hoys under 21, his Worship fined a barmaid and the son of the licensee £5, reserving judgment on tho licensee's case. Mr. Hewitt, 5.M.,. strongly condemned two boys, Horton and Lecher, whose statements to tho police directly, contradicted their evidence, and who admitted that the statements were fabricated. Tho magistrate ordered the sergeant of police to endeavour to institute proceedings for perjury against the lads, and characterised the change of statements to the police and the evidence given in Court in these cases as disgusting, and the lads en liars.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 4
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117CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 4
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