UNHAPPY QUARTETTE

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 4

UNHAPPY QUARTETTE

MEN STILL IN TROUBLE. AFTERMATH OF PREVIOUS CASE The proceedings at the last sitting of the Court, when they were heavily fined on a series of charges arising from the unlawful conversion of a motor-car, were recalled in the Magistrate's Court this morning when William Loughlin, Eric Norman McEwin, Clifford Francis Courtenay and Patrick Daniel Bradley were each fined £2, with 10s costs, for breaches of the liquor licensing laws. They were charged with purchasing liquor during closing hours from the Renwick Arms Hotel on September 13, and also with removing liquor from the premises. The second charge was withdrawn. None of the defendants appeared. In evidence, Constable A. T. Morrison, who visited the hotel at 10 a.m. on the Sunday morning, stated that each, of the men had admitted purchasing liquor. A plea of guilty to selling during closing hours was entered on behalf of Gertrude May Tomlinson by Mr A. E. L. Scantlebury. A fine of £12, with 10s costs, was imposed. "It is a pity that these men, who persuaded the licensee's wife to give them the liquor, don't have to pay some of the fine themselves," remarked Mr Scantlebury. The position, he said, was that the men involved had been refused liquor the previous evening by the licensee, who had ordered them off the premise3. The next morning they had returned in a converted car, after the licensee had departed for camp, and had kept begging for liquor until finally they were supplied with some to get .rid of them.