CASE DISMISSED

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1919, Page 7

CASE DISMISSED

A motor proprietor named Waltey Stanton was charged in the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. P. V. Frazer, S.M., with having been found after hours on the pi-emises of the Metropolitan Hotel. Sergeant Edwards said that when first questioned defendant said he had only just arrived, having driven the lieenaee to the hotel from an entertainment.' The bay was open and come of the lodgers werei being supplied with liquor. To Mr. J. J. M'Gfath, who appeared for defendant, witness stated that defendant said he bad gone into the hotel to get his fare. He had no reason to doubt defendant's statement. He had seen the car outside the hotel 'some tfme before, while he himself was passing on a tramcar. The office of the hotel wafs in.the private liai", and defendant, (jiving evidence on his own behalf said that on the evening in question he took the licensee of the hotel to a theatre, and took him back to the hotel about 10.30. As defendant had no change, the licensee took him inside and paid his fare. There was a bit of talk about the various artists, but he had nothing to drink, and had even left the engine of his car running while he went into the hotel. His Worship considered the'explanation sufficient. The defendant was quite entitled to go into the .hotel'to get his fare, and was evidently on friendly terms with the licensee and bis family, whose premises were close to his. The case would be dismissed. ' •