MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2587, 22 July 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUEOH. Saturday, July 22. [Before C. Whitefoord. 8.M., and E. Wes

tenra, J.P.J Dbunkennbss.—Mary Ann Greaves, for many years a frequenter a* a drunkard of the dock, was fined 10s; John Parker, 20s; Martin Warren, 10a ; John Bosford, who had bsen fined on Friday, wasagain [fined 10a—ell with the uiual alternative terms of imprisonment in default of payment. A Bailoe’s Fbeak—levia John a ton, a sailor belonging to the Island Lily, and who appeared in a shiny belltopper, was charged with stealing a rake valued at 6s 6d from the inside of the Cathedral tower. The rake was found in his possession. He said he did not know how ho got either the hat or the rake. Sergeant Mason seid the man was drunk when arrested j he had nearly £3 on him, and was not known to the police. His Worship said he thought the offence had been the result of a drunken spree. The articles found on him would be very little use on board of a ship. As his ship was to sail in a day or two, he would dismiss the case, with a recommendation to the accused to be careful in future how he amused himself. The Licensing Act. —J. O. Sheppard, licensee of the White Hart Hotel, was charged with having kept open his house for the sale of liquor to other than bona Me travellers on Sunday, July 16:h. Mr Thornes appeared for the defendant. Sergeant Hughes proved that ho had walked in at the front door, which was open. In a bar, separated by a pfir of swing doors from the passage gained by the street door, were two gentlemen drinking. Witness knew them to be boarders in the hotel. Mr Thomas admitted that the principal entrance had been kept open, and that liquor had been aold, but only to residents of the hotel. He said that this hotel, in common with many others in the town, had a large number of boarders who, under the present reading of the Act by the police, were constrained to keep shut every door in their houses, and it was a fact that lodgers sometimes ladies had to go sneak' ing in at back doors on Sundays, of being allowed free entrance from the front in a respectable manner. His client claimed the right to keep open his front door, and at any rate hoped that the question would bo set at rest. The Magistrate said the information must be dismissed. As to the front door, there was no penalty provided by the Act for keeping a door open ; the Legislature, therefore, do not seem to have intended to force the closing of all doors, and it was reasonable that boarders should have easy access to the hotel. Besides, the information said that the house had been kept open for the sale of liquors to other than bona fid,} travellers. Now the parsons found in the bar were admitted by the police to have been lodgers who, under the Act, had the run of the bar. The information was dismissed. In a s'milar case against Cecil Louisson, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, relating to the supply of beer to three men on Sunday, July 16th, the offence was held to be proved, and a fine of £2 was inflicted, defendant to pay costs of Court and the expenses of three witnesses, £1 4s. An endorsement, stating the judgment, was ordered to bs made on the back of the license held by defendant.