BOTTLE TROWN AT TRAIN.

Shannon News, 21 May 1926, Page 2

BOTTLE TROWN AT TRAIN.

YOUTH ADMIIS CHARGE. WHILE IN STATE OF INTOXICATION. PALMERSTON, May 20. In the Police Comt a youth whose name was ordered to be suppressed, pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court tor sentence on a charge of hurling a bottle at the engine of the incoming everting tram from Napier on April 5. The police evidence was to the infect that accused " i J ade a statement admitting throwing the bottle at the engine. He and another youth of U after attending an entertainment n the night of the occurrence procured fourteen bottles of beer Horn the licensee of a hotel. They had linear the Terrace Street mterseoti when the train approached, liav m, consumed tour hot 1 tes each: were in a state of intoxication and decided to throw a bottle that was

broken at the engine. This had been done by accused, who denied that he had any connection -with the attempts to derail the trains. The remaining bottles of beer were consumed later. Asking that the -name of the hotel from whence the bqer was procured be suppressed tile police stated a prosecution wa-s ponding.