RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TE AROHA. TUESDAY APRIL 24th. UNKNOWN

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 25 April 1888, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TE AROHA. TUESDAY APRIL 24th. UNKNOWN

Police v. Thompson. This was a plaint Mcr^insi Mrs Annie '! hompM)n, proprieties of the Family ITotel, Rollestnn street. To Aroha, foi the sale of liijuor aHer hours. Mr Miller, solicitor For d<>!endant. Tlie following witnesses werr> examined : .las 11. i{owe (suoni). In reply <o Serjeant, Jamison, said : T lecollect cooing ym in liio Family Hotel, about. hilt" pa->t <<'u on tho ni^ht of 2(>th March C\ uld not «:w if tho bar was closed then Tlkmc uas one other man j.iostM.i. I lclt between half past t <m» arnl .■'iim-n, 1 bad m t hutq- to dunk after ten. T was mt to a man named Stewart so far as I know. Charles Kveiitt (sworn). In reply to Serire.uit Emerson : Am a carpenter residing at Te Arohn. Kecolleci seeing \nn in I^l r«» Thompson's a liUl' 1 after ten o'clock on the nit-ht of ll arch -0. J had no difliculfy in pet tins: in. the side door beinir open. 1 went in with the Captain of the steamer who had some business with Mrs Thompson. Ko one nskod for drinks so far as T know. J could not s.iy whether the bar was lit or not. Both Mr .Brown and Mr? Thompson said " if yon want any drink yon must go elsewhere," they also mentioned you had just been there. William Emerson (sworn), stated : Am Sergeant of Police stationed at Te Aroha. About half past ten on the night of 20th March when passing the oi oss roads near Bank X.Z , T heard loud talking in the direction of the Family Hotel. l\dles(on street, and jyoinir down found two men standing outsi !e talking lou lly. who as J approached them walked into ihe hotel. The noise still continued after they went in; and walking into the hotel I found a in in named Stewart fiotnl v iako,thewitness Howe, nml a dark nym named 'lopping sitting inside, two in the dining room and one in the kitchen, and \n>[ an T entered the dining mom f met Mrs Thompson coming out with three empty glares and a tiny, her father, \fr Biown, was standing in the doorway of the bar, which was lit up. Defendant ir. reply to my quesiton as to why she did not close her house, replied •'he was not selling anything. I 'then loft nml going 1 np the street three men passed me and walked into the hotel. 1 waited for a | little lime and seeing they remained mii sido T turned bnok, just as T did so defendants father looked out and seeing me coming nt once went in and tho three | men elmrod out in gieat haste, the bar was still lit. Xn reply to Mr Miller: When T went dow\ the first time the tloor lead ing into the bar was closed ; the fight in the bar may not have been fully turned up. Mr Miller next addressed th.o Court, and submitted there was no case to answer, and submitted that the men Stewait and Topping were boarders in the liou«e, and ihil Rone was (hero for fehe pin pose of t.kking oideis as lie had staled. (y.ise disniisi,^ ]fh Worship Sv at inn that without donbt the lights should be put, out in theitiirut ten o'clock. Jimes I)on \ r . Jas. F^e.id. No (ip- ( pe.\r. r nifo of cither p.nty, Stuuk out.

Vi. W . TUnnicr v. John I>iomby Claim £1(5 11s GI, ron(, of bind. Mr Miller, who appeared on behalf of plaintiff, sf-rttod it was liis dcsii'o to withdraw (he phiint, and notice to that ofTi'ol had boon soived on defendant that morning Mr McGioj;or liny who had been retained by do f endjuit asked for costs. Case withdrawn, plaintiff to' pay costs £ I Us.