A PECULIAR CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 281, 20 April 1911, Page 5

A PECULIAR CASE

WITNESS FORGETS EVERYTHING. WHAT WILL THE POLICE DO? By Telegraph.—l'r«Hs Association. Dunedin, Last Night. A case presenting some- unusual features came before the City Police Court to-day, when Cecil Lean, a youth, was charged with throwing a missile on March 24. Among the witnesses called by the police was Horace Edwards, a farm laborer. He first of all denied remembering the evening of March 24. Then he denied knowing anything about the case, or having spoken about it to Mounted Constable Hodgson, or having been asked any questions about it, or about anything by Hodgson. He denied ever having seen Hodgson before April 13, when the constable served a subpoena and a summons (Edwards being the defendant in another case arising out of the stonethrowing). Even then he did not know that Hodgson was a constable. Edwards was warned by the Magistrate and SubInspector Cruiekshank, but he professed complete ignorance of the whole affair. The ease against Lean was dismissed. Cecil Lean, Frank Guy, and Horace Edwards were then charged with using indecent and obscene language. They elected to be tried summarily, and pleaded not guilty. His Worship added: "With regard to this man Edwards, I am not going to indicate any course, but my notes are available, and" (to the Sub-Inspector) "you had better take advice."