TEMPTED AND FELL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 56, 1 March 1912, Page 6

TEMPTED AND FELL.

PROHIBITED' PERSON FOUND ON LICENSED PREMISES. A TOO COMMON. OFFENCE. Arthur Evans, a prohibited person, appeared before Mr. W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., this morning, on a charge of being found oh licensed premises. Mr. Malone, who appeared for the defence., stated that the prohibition order had been taken out in accused’s own interests. He was sorely tempted and he fell. -'-There was something about cashing a cheque, but, he would not advance, that, on behalf of the accused.

The Magistrate f ' The bank’s the place for cashing‘cheques. His Worship said he heard a great deal,i-tco many, of these sort of cases lately. In Stratford he had not had so-much of it; : 'Since the new year there, was nothing else going on in Hawera. 1 He hadohgd to increase the fines there very much. He remarked that the order hiad been taken out in Elthamj. and; shid that it was a practice "of j'§ueh ? meii. obtain liquor in other towns, : whqrq- they would not be IchoWjUi 0 !!! j! \ i•. , Sergea’nt 1 McNoely said that he kneiw'as a matter of fact that accused had been in the hotels more than once. Accused knew that he (the Sergeant) did not know of the prohibition order, that was a fact. He did not know of the cider, and only-, found out when making enquiries in another case. Accused was fined 20s, and 7s costs.