ILLEGALLY ON LICENSED PREMISES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2205, 20 November 1920, Page 2

ILLEGALLY ON LICENSED PREMISES.

(IFFF.N DFRS CONVICTED AND FIXED.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr ■]. L. Stout, S.M.. Polaka Iloterini, Sam Iloterini, Thomas Murphy, didin Taylor, Norman Hall, Deter Detersen, Denis McGill ajiid Joseph Healey were all charged ' with being found in the Family Hotel at a lime when such premises are required by law to be closed. None of the defendants appeared.

Constable Owen staled that on Sunday, October 31st, at about H 1.30 a.m., he visited the Family Hotel, going in the front door. There was no one in I lie front pasbill ill (he next passage, that leading to the side entrance, lie found a number of men. “‘They wen 1 lined up like a troop of soldiers," said the constable, who added (hal when die arrived (he licensee was in the act of unlocking (lie bar door: On the constable pulling' in an nppearanee there was a general stampede. He was able to identify the eight defendants, bur there were a number of others whom he could not identify. Two of the defendants, Healey and Murphy, claimed that they were boarders, tint on making impiiries he found this was not so.

The Magistrate entered a conviction in each ea.-e, *and inflicted lines of £2 each, with cost,-. 7s. In the eases against the two Natives there was an additional Os each in (he costs for translation fees.

Herbert Thompson, who did not appear, was charged with being found on the premises of the Post Office Hotel at a time when such premises are required by law to be e.losed. ■

(tynstulde Owen said that ill al)i tut H. 30 o’.-lodv on I lit. 1 night of. October 2Slh Jio visited the Pod: Cilice Hotel, going in by tlic back entrance, and met the dei’eiidaut coming out. When questioned, Thompson said that lie had been in to see a. man named K’eid about some llax work. Witness asked the defendant to aeeompanv him into the hotel and interview Reid, but he d(-(dined. The constable said that he went into the hotel and saw Reid, who was upstairs, and Keid at (irsl: denied that, he had seen Thompson, but afterwards said that he had

spoken to him. Since being served with the summons, Thompson had slated that lie went into the hotel to ,-eo Keid but did not actually see him. Constable Owen said that when he entered the hotel the bar was closed, and there was no one about the bar, and there was no surest ion llh.t the defendant; had had any liquor there that night.

Defendant was convicted and lined i'2, with costs 7s.