EX-DETECTIVE AS HOTELKEEPER
(SPKCIATi TO "TITB PRESS,") DUNTJDIN, November 4. Ex-I>etective Hnmmerley, who is now licenseo of tho Metropolitan Hotel, is still having trouble with tho polico. Ho was charged to-day with obstructing Constables MacArtney and McCulloch while in tho execution of their duty, and also with refusing to admit tho constables in demanding to enter licensed premises. This was tho third occasion within a few weeks on which the defendant had been charged with breaches of tho Licensing Act. On tho two previous ocaaaions tho informations were dismissed. In to-day's case tho defendant alleged that owing to ill-feeling between himself and the police, arising out of his former connexion with tho force, he was being persecuted. His defence was that the police had no right to enter his hotel when they did, having had no reasonable cause to suspoct a violation of the law at that particular time: further, that there was no evidence of anv demand being mado for entrance. The allegations mado by tho police were that the obstruction consisted in tho defendant catching hold of one ot the constables tyhen he attempted to enter the kitchen. , . . Tho Magistrate reserved judgment.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 2
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