HOTEL LICENSEE CHARGED
7 THE THISTLE INN CASE. • The !hearing of the case. in -which William Hannafin, licensee of the Thistle Inn Hotel, ■ was charged with (1) permitting drunkenness on his premises on October .16/ and (2) with selling liquor- to Alexander Watson, a person already in a state of intoxication, was concluded before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared for tho defence. Inspector Hendrey' prosecuted. The hearing of evidence for the defence was opened. 'A railway hand gav© evidence that at 9.30 on thd evening in question Watson was sober when he came' over to the' railway station. William Hannafin, defendant in the case, said he had • been in the liotel since July 6. On the night in question witness came to the bar at 9.15. When called by Constable Tricklebank to .see Watspn, witness said he did riot know Watson was drunk and that he (witness) would need 20 eyes to watch such as Watson.;
Witness was cross-examined by Inspector Hendrey about his methods of conducting the hotel since he had taken' it over. . Witness said he had only been cautioned by the police once about the conduct of the hotel. Witness denied allegations that when the police had climbed over the fence early one Sunday morning they could hear the clink of money, the suggestion being, that a game of cards was being indulged in for money. Witness emphatically denied that' he and others we'ro under the influence of liquor then. Witness was aware that there was a complaint that women of ill-fame were known, to be about the premises. -A large number .of witnesses were called , and gave evidence as to Watson's movements in the bar. It was > sworn ( positively that the glass of liquor seized by the police did not belong to Watson.. The evidence for the defence was concluded and Mr. O'Leary stated that he proposed to postpone his remarks to the Bench until the Magistrate had visited . the hotel to Bee the position of everything. This was agreed to and the case adjourned to 11 o'clock on Tuesday.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 3
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356HOTEL LICENSEE CHARGED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 3
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