CHARGE DISMISSED
NO CASE AGAINST LICENSEE S.M. DOUBTS WITNESS Charges of selling liquor after hours and keeping open for sale preferred against E. H. Cucksey at the Police Court this morning were dismissed. Mr. J. L. Conlan appeared for defendant and entered pleas of not guilty. The police story was that defendant and another man been seen comingout of the door of the hotel on Sunday evening. The man was discovered to have 12 bottles of beer in a bag which he had first said contained dirty clothes. He was not a lodger, though he had at first said he was. Sub-Inspector McCarthy then called M. Posa, who was the man concerned, and defendant on a charge of being found on licensed premises after hours. Witness said that he had bought the beer on Saturday but had not taken it away with him, as he had dumped it in the hotel. On Sunday evening, without the licensee’s knowledge, he had come back for the beer and was accosted by Mr. Cucksey while leaving the building. “I am not impressed by the story of this witness,” commented Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., “but I must dismiss the information.
Posa, who was defended by Mr. L. P, Leary, was fim-d £3.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 11
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209CHARGE DISMISSED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 11
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