TOKO SENSATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1916, Page 8

TOKO SENSATION.

MAXWELL BEFORE V3E COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.)' Stratford. Yesterday. At the Stratford ■ Police Court • tliia morning, David Ma.vweJ, a well known settler, of Toko, was charged before Mr. A. W. Reid, J.P., with committing a certain offence at Toko in December last. Sergt, Dale, for,.,the. police, said the accused failed to appear when called on, on January 14th last, and was arrested , in Pnlmerston North on Saturday last,' ' and remanded to Stratford. He would ask for a remand till the 24th, when i the accused would have to be further remanded because owing to the accused not appearing at the hearing, an important witness was now in Auckland. ! Accused, he understood, intended to ask j for bail, and lie would point out that j in considering bail the Bench should j consider the trouble the police had been j put to over the accused's non-appear. j «nce. Accused: I would be pleased if the I Bench .would grant me bail. Can I give the Court an Explanation of my diaap- | pcaranee'! , The Bench: No, not now. You may only explain the reason you require bail. Accused: Very well, your Worship. One reason why 1 ask for bail is that during my absence everything has gone smash. My tenants refuse to pay their rent and everything "has gone to rack! and rain. The Bench: That is entirely your own fault. Accused: That may be so. Still you won't allow me to explain my absence. IVlmt I would like is that the amount of bail should be fixed so that when my wife, who is at Toko trying to arrange matters for me, arrives with the bonds- ' men, I can be liberated. Sergeant Dale: If bail is granted I must ask for a substantial sum. The Bench: Yes, it must be substantial. I will remand him till 24th inst., ani will allow bail in accused's own recognisance of £IOO, and two surej ties of £SO each. This sum should met the case.

Bail was not forthcoming, and the accused was sent to the New Plymouth goal.