"THE GIRL IN THE TAXI."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 132, 10 July 1914, Page 10

"THE GIRL IN THE TAXI."

SALT AND HEADE BEFORE COURT J James William Salt and t Thomai Patrick Heade, aged 24 and 23 years respectively, were brought before Mr Bishop, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning, .and charged jointly with "administering a noxious thing, to wit whisky, to one Winnie Williams, a girl under the age of fifteen years." . Mr Cassidy appeared for Heade, Mr Donnelly for Salt, and Sub-Inspector M'Kinnon for the police. Winifred Grace Williams, a girl of about 15 years, said that oil "Sunday, June 14, she went for a drive in a taxi with the two accused. They left about 2.45 p.m. from Hereford Street in Salt's car. The two accused, witness and a girl named Eva Mackenzie, were in the cab. They went first to the Excelsior Hotel, where Heade got out and went into the hotel. He brought a bottle of whisky out, and then the party set out for Kaiapoi. Witness had a nip of .the whisky on the way out. Heade had the but she. did not remember clearly., who it was fjave her the drink. Thejr had" tea at Kaiapoi in a hotel, and thep. went to a private house.. She did not remember who gave her whisky in the house, or where the liquor was obtained. From the house at Kaiapoi she remerhbered nothing more until she found herself in the hands of the police. ; To Mr Donnelly: It was my oousia Eva Mackenzie, who proposed the ride to Kaiapoi. ' To the Sub-Inspector: I have known Salt about ten months, but I only met Heade on the Sunday. '(Proceeding.) ;