SHORT OF CASH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1923, Page 7

SHORT OF CASH.

: AN INTERRUPTED HONEYMOO-I (ink niiioroii TICKET. (By Telegraph.—Own f"_. respondent.. HAMILTON", this day. A young man named William Harold 1 Taylor, a livery stable proprietor, in ! business at Te Aroha. who had only bepn | married three days, and was returning L from Auckland on his honeymoon, was . charged before Mr. Young. S.M.. to-day with overriding on ihe express by travel- i ling further than his ticket entitled him i to. li appears he booked as far as , Mercer, but travelled on to Frankton. When spoken to by the guard shortly , after he left Mercer he explained that he , intended taking out an extension, but > was not requested to. He said he got down to Auckland Station with just a . few minutes to catch the train, and only had enough loose change to buy his wife's , through ticket and himself a ticket to Mercer. The Magistrate said the Department did quite right in bringing a prosecution, but there was doubt as to whether defendant intended to elude payment. Mr. Strang (for accused i cause laugh- j tcr by remarking that there was some excuse for a man only married a few days forgetting anything?