The Clarendon.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 298, 18 December 1886, Page 2

The Clarendon.

The charge ngainat Harry Bennett of

fiupplying liquor to persons othot tha* lodgers or bana Jide travellers atri? licensed house, known a« the CliuiLi Hotel, on Sunday l M t, wa ß then coeded with. The evidence of the ftS. two witnesses was taken yesterday^ feergoant Pratt prosecuted, and Mr Cott V ' defended,—Sergeant Kiely was called « I deposed that on Sunday last he visited tha Clarendou Hotel m camDany with Conofok. Hansen at 8.20 p.m. "HU attention^ attracted by the number of peopleiwhow passing in and out. They went «„ ?* tbosicte door loading from Cbboreat™!* It was a glass door, and the porter™ etanding iniido of it. When they knorlS I ha cpsnsd the door. They were both t plain clotbos at the time. Goin E thro k the passage towards the bar they nl. seven or eight persons coining oiit <Tjalthough he was not aware of their na» ho knew that they were not boarders of M i Bennett's, because their features werew^u known to him aa men about town v Bennett was standing in the passage at it ' end of which was a door opening into ti! 6 bar. They went into the bar, which I lighted up, while a barmaid was to ; serving. There wore four men etaJ- *; in front of the bar, and two of the£ v$ ■' ' drinks, o^ne being a pint of beer and tK - other a long glaes of beer. T Wo Jr 6 glasses were served while they wem.? ? ' ing there to the other two men fa itfJlWitness first spoke to Weeks, who s ovideuco yesterday, and he said ha J, ™5 traveller, and entitled to drink a« t* 1 vessel waa in the harbour Tha who was drinking from the pintTr beor said ho was rooidine in Vi«- }' street. Witness asked the man biaSnm and he said it waa Oakes, but witnna. »• discovered it to be itnox. Another S named George Johnston stated that ha li longed to the Enterprise. There was a W another seaman named Nicholson there h t,' he said ha only had lemonade and bitte» While witnesa was speaking otner m came ia, and witness caw a pint of S> drawn for one of those men and handed him. They went out of the bar into th passage, and witness requested Mr BeriinSl) to clear his house of all those who wbca «T lodgers. Mr Bennett replied thaKoj,, them inquired for beds as they caiS* in, WitnosßaekedthattbemenwhoinaiSwi I for beds be pointed out, and the'porter*a; called in by Al r Bennett and asked to ndS* them our,. The porter looked from one to another for a time, and then indicating Knox, said "This is the man who askedfrS! the bud." Knox replied thathe did no euX thing. The porter then, looked at Weeks and Weeks shook his head and walked oDt* e-ying, " I don't want a bed." The porter ■ was quite confused, and did not knot?; whom to spoak to. The three aaUora weni^ down Queen street, and Knox went over in* the direction of Cook-street. A vonnffmiii from the hotel followed Knox, anfSi to got him away. Witness, however/went' with Knox over to the foot of Cookstreet. He had since made evefv*" endeavour to find Knox and have him hem as a witness, but could not succeed. Hahad been twice to his house, and be was nci; at homo. JS'o questions were asked him when he was going into the Clarendon —= The witness waa cross examined byMf Cotter.—Constable Haneen gavecorrobora'. tive evidence.—This was the case for tha prosecution.-Sergeant Pratt said that efforts to find Knox bad been unavailing — Mr Cotter submitted that the men oamr clearly within the definition "lodgerej" and held that there was no case to answer^His Worship held that there was "a prima facie case, and the further hearing was edjourned till Monday morning.