POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

I Mr. Wyvern Wilson. S.M.)' ? '" BKtnSILEKISrESS. * "STonr first offenders forfeited bail, and tme -was fined 5/. . James Orben Graves %39) had. gone into an hotel some ■months ago when he was prohibited, and had then left the city, and was not found until he visited town again on Saturday. He had been under arrest for the weekend and was let off with a fine of 5/. AN ESTERNATIOiSAI. MELEE. Emanuel Rosen {25), Christian Bye =(26), and John Wachter (2S), admitted having a fight in the public bar of the Brittomart Hotel on Saturday afternoon, and that they broke a window and a number of glasses- The evidence was that Bye (a Norwegian), Eosen (a Dutchman), and Wachter (a Russian), •three sailors, went into the bar in a quarrelsome humour, and were refused drink. Then the Scandinavian struck the Russian, who retaliated by striking Bye with a beer glass, and.the Dutchman tried to separate the other two, but got a blow, and then joined in the fray, in which the trio used their fists, and what beer glasses they could get hold of. When the smoke cleared, and a policeman was called, Eosen and Bye were Weeding from cuts on the head, and a tar window and eleven beer glasses were . broken. The men were fined 40/ each, and ordered to pay 45/ damage, in deianlt eeven days imprisonment. TWTS CELLAUEOTTS. Kobert J. Lowe (ID, on a charge of Slaving stolen three chains, the property of J. McGinn, at Te Kuiti, was remanded to appear at Te Kniti on Thursday. William Hawse Worker (65), on "a charge of vagrancy, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A MISmiDEESTAITOING. A charge against Fred. King, a barman, of a breach of the anti-shouting regulations was the outcome of an argument in the Eoyal George Hotel on June 1 (a race day), between George Munroe and the barman. Munroe stated that ihe and a friend, Lucas, went into the lotel, and he called for drinks for the two, and a bottle of whisky, and put down a £1 note. The .barman supplied the drinks, and gave S/2 or 9/2 change. hat did not supply the bottle of whisky. athexeon he protested, and the barman said thai it was a 10/ note, not a £1 note, which was given him. A constable . »as brought in, and the barman insisted that he had received only a 10/ note. 1 (Under cross-examination, Munroe hesitated about stating definitely that it as a £1 note he had paid over, and lie was also not reaay to state definitely that he had paid for the drink served to .iLaeas. King stated there was a rush of business in the bar at the time. A man, aiunxoe, put down a 10/ note and asked for a long beer, and he was given the beer and 9/7 change. When witness re- , turned with the change Lucas called for '£. long beer, and when witness, got hack to the counter with the beer there was lalf-a-crown in front of Lucas, which svitness took and changed. A little later ilunroe asked where (his bottle ol ••K-hisky was, and said he had paid for ifae whisky and ha I not been given it. Witness denied that any whisky was ordered or paid for, and "pointed out to Mnnroe that the cheapest whisky was I*ll/ a bottle, so that it was not likely tie -would be given a bottle for 10/. Witmess added that if Munroe had asked for whisky he would have nominated, or l>een asked to etate, some particular .■brand, 23 there were about nineteen different brands in stock, and nothing was said at any time by Munroe about any 'i>artienlax brand of whisky. Under cross-examination, defendant stated the denomination of the coins he paid in change to Munroe and Lucas, and! eaid it was six or seven minutes after he] had given the change that Munroe started the argument about the whisky Despite the space of time between the two events he declared he could clearly recollect the coins he passed, but he could not state details respecting other patrons of the bar. After W m . Gray don, who was in the tax at the time, had given evidence on fhe toes of thai given by the barman Worship commented on the haziness of Munroe evidence and the probability £t iwT d mi3taken one of the