SHATTERED WINDOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 646, 24 April 1929, Page 1

SHATTERED WINDOW

BLAMED HIS COMPANION JOCKEY TO PAY DAMAGE “1 suppose you got drunk and fell through it,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., after listening to a long explanation from William Baden Powell Ayres, who vigorously denied at the Police Court this morning that he had broken a plate-glass window in a Victoria Street shop. a jockey and labourer, aged x 29, pleaded not guilty through Mr. F. W. Schramm to being found drunk in Victoria Street on Saturday evening, and committing mischief by breaking a window valued at £3. Mr. Skelton, a confectioner, of Victoria Street, said that, ing Ayres lurching past his shop, he nad rushed out, as was his custom, to watch his ! windows. Ayres had gone on up the street and turned into a shop doorway. There was a sound of breaking glass, and Ayres reappeared. Nobody else was in the doorw-ay at the time, though a second man was walking down the street close at hand. Ayres’s explanation was that he had been talking to a man named Gibbs, who had accidentally put. his foot through the window, and then left the scene, leaving his companion to face ! the music. Mr. Hunt found himself unable to believe the story, and ordered Ayres to make good the damage. Ayres: I want a bit of time, so that I can sue the man who really broke the window. He was given a w-eek to pa\, in accordance with • request made by Mr. Schramm.