MEAL NOT PAID FOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 8

MEAL NOT PAID FOR.

LABOURER CONVICTED.

A charge that he incurred a debt for the sum of 2/, and thereby obtained credit by fraud, was denied by David Lewis (21), a labourer, when he came before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, 531., in the Police Court to-day. Evidence was given by a waiter and a kitchen hand employed in a Queen Street grill room that on Monday afternoon two young men, after having a meal, ran out of the shop without payThe waiter said he gave chase and caught Lewis in the street and handed him over to a constable. Both witnesses were positive that Lewis was one of the men who left without paving for the meal. *

. Constable Shilton said that when he interviewed accused Lewis said he had not been in the grill room that day. Lewis stated in evidence that he* had not been in the restaurant and did not know where it was. He also denied that he had been running, and suggested that the witnesses had mad© a mistake. " eniar kin<r that two .witnesses had identified him as being one of the two men in the shop, the magistrate convicted Lewis. As he had been in custody while on remand for two davs he would be ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, and to pay 2/ for the meal and witnesses' expenses.