LOSS OF MEMORY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143472, 20 April 1911, Page 2

LOSS OF MEMORY.

BY A POLICE COURT WITNESS.

For Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 19. A case presenting some unusual features came before the City Police Couri to-day, when' Cecil Loan, a youth, waA charged with throwing a missilo off Among tho witnesses called by the police was Horace Edwards, a tarni labourer. Ho 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 over having seen Hodgson before April 13 wiu'n tho constable served a sub- / poena and a summans (Edwards being tho defendant in another cose arising out of tho stone-throwing). Even then he did not know that Hodgson was a constable. Edwards was warned by tho Magistrate and Subinspeotor Cruiokshank, but he professed complete ignorance of tho wWo affair. The case against Loan was dismissed. Cecil Lean, Frank Guy, and Horace Edwards were then charged with using indecent and obscene language. They elected to bo tried summarily, and pleaded not gU ffis Worship added: “With regard to this man Edwards, I am not going to indicate any course, but my notes aro available, and” (to tho Subinspector) “you had better take advice.