Feilding R.M. Court

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 69, 20 November 1884, Page 2

Feilding R.M. Court

Wednesday, Notembbb 19th, 1884. Before D. H. Macarthur, Esq., and H. L. Sherwill, Esq., J.P.s. Police t H. Wollerman, for supplying S. Eowley, a prohibited person, with tea gallons of ale on or about the 15th inst. A second charge for selling the same was laid. Mr WoHermaa pleaded not guilty in each case. Mr Sandilands appeared for defendant. . , M r Eoche, stationmaster, . deposed that about the 15th instant a keg of ale was consigned from Palmerston by Wollerman and Hutcheson to S. Eowley, at Feilding; Eowley applied for the beer and paid the \ freight ; he made the remark that it was 1 Mrs Eowley's ; the bee* was taken from the station by Mr Daw's cart. •• ' ~ t By the Bench : As a matter of fact Eowley paid the freight. Alfred Mansell, porter at the railway station, deposed that he saw a keg of beer for Rowley ; saw Constable Oillespie take the address off the keg (address produced) and tap the keg; Mr Rowley gave orders to hare the beg delivered to Worsfold, Daw's partner. J. H. Worsfold deposed : He received a keg from the station porter; took it to Eowley's shop and delivered it to Eowley; Mrs Eowley paid Is. v - Constable Gillespie deposed to notices ■; of Eowley being a prohibited person having been put up in the hotels in Pal* merston, and of having told Mr Wollerman of the same a good many months ago. Cross-examined : Could not say how many months ago: told Wollerman it was Eowley of Feilding ; did not know that it was Mrs Eowley carried on the tobacconist part of the business on her own account ; saw the keg ou the railway platform ; Towler, the porter at the ata*. tion, pointed out the keg. Mr Sandilands applied for the ease to be dismissed, as the notice given to Air Wollerman was insufficient, it. not being sufficiently clear, there being two persons of the same name in Feilding, The Bench preferred to hear the defence, for which Hermann Wollerman deposed : He knew Mrs Eowley ; had dealings with her in Palmerston and Feilding ; she was in the habit of buying beer from his firm ; Mrs Eowley gave an order for the beer in question ; was not aware of there being a prohibition against Mr Eowley: the order was booked to. Mrs Eowley (book produced), and supplied to Mrs Eowley ; the storeman, in making out the address, made a mistake when he put the name of S. Eowley in- v stead of Mrs Eowley. . Cross-examined: Had not observed the notices of the prohibition against Eowley; had no conversation on the subject. ; did not recollect a conversation with' Con- • stablo Gillespin in which the latter told witness of the existence of the prohibition " order. By the Bench £ Itdid not appear strange Mrs Eowley ordering the beer, as shfc had done it before in Palmerston. ' By Constable Gillespie : Sometimes h» booked goods to the wives instead of the husbands. . The Court said the liquor was supplied" by the defendant to S. Eowley, knowing Eowley to be a prohibited person. As it ' was a first offence Mr Wollerman was : fined lOt. JNo witnesses' expense*- . allowed.