THE ALLEGED WHARF THEFTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7

THE ALLEGED WHARF THEFTS.

. « A FURTHER CHARGE. ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! Auckland, August 17. f Jhe hearing of tho chargos iu coimcclion with tho alleged wlinrf thefts wag continued in the Police Court to-day, before* Mr. Cutten, S.M. Joseph Ehnnaii and John Alexander M'lntyre wero charged that at Auckland, on or about November 11*10, they fctolo from the wharf one case of Old Judge tobacco, valued at (ho properly of Winstono and Co., Ltd. Chief Detect ivo Marsaek said that in tho early part of November, 1010, two cases ol Old Judge cigarette tobacco arrived from Sydney by the Ilauroto, for ins!one and Co. These were discharged from the vessel into a.shed on the Hobsou Street wharf, and . were seen there by Iho consignees' agent, who employed a carter to remove them to the examination shed. Ihe coses were removed to the shed, and next ilay, when a carter who was font to lake the goods away, it was found that one case .was missing. Search was made, and (he acctl'ed M'lntyrp, who was worki»R in the shed, faid that no tobacco at all had come into the shed. A carter named Brown Was engaged by M'lntyro on November II to take a case of tobacco away from the examination shed to Glover's store in Fort Street. At tho storo the case wan taken charge of by Ehrman, and it had not been seen since. Duncan M'Donahl, wharf foreman for Me-srs. Winstone-and Co., .said that, on November 1 of last year two cases of tobacco consigned to his firm arrived by the Ilauroto. One of tho cases was marked to show that it contained Old Judge tobacco, These eases wero discharged into a shed on the Hobson Street Wharf. Ho instructed a carter named Thwaite.s to lake tho cases to the examination sited on tho Queen's Street: Wharf. Witness went to this shed on November' 3, and could only find one ease there. Next day witness asked M'lntyro if he had seen these cases of tobacco in (he shed, and M'lntyro • said, in an off-hand manner, that he had not seen any tobacco. The missing case, which was valued at illfi Ss. Gd„ was never recovered. M'lntyro had no authority to remove a c.i«> to Glover's store. Robert Alexander Drawn, carter for Carr and Haslam, paid that about November 1 last, while ho was on the Qucon Street Wharf, M'lntyre. asked witness to go over to the examination shed, a.s he wanted a case taken to Glover's store. Witness drove his eirt to tho shed, and was mot there by M'lntyro, who rolled a case out. Tho two of them put it on witness's cart. Tho only brand on this ease, as far as witness could see, was "Old Judge," in black letters. Witness took the case to Glover's store in Fort Street, and was met there by Ehrnian, who told him to put the ease off and run it into tho store. Witness did so, and in the afternoon told M'Jntyre, when tho latter asked him, tliat he had delivered tho case. M'lntyro gave, him ss. iwxt morning for taking the caw round, which was more than tho usual pay for such a job. Since then witness had carted one case for M'lntyro" to Glover's store, and was paid ss. by M'lntyre for doing so. lie had not carted a caso for M.'lntyro before Npvomber 3. He thought- Is. Cd. would be a fair charge for carting a case from the shed to Glover's store. After further evidence, accused reserved their defence, and were committed for trial to tho Supreme Court. tiail was allowed M'lntyre iu two sureties of ,£75 or one of ,£l5O. STATEMENT BY MR. A. E. GLOVER, M.P. "A WICKED AND CRUEL UNTRUTH." Mr. A. E. Glover, the member for 'Auckland Central, obtained permission in , Parliament yesterday to make a statc- . ment iu rebuttal oi statements'affecting [ his reputation which were made in evi- . <:ence during Court proceedings at Auck- ' land, as reported yesterday. "A wicked and cruel untruth has been ; uttered by one Hadden against me," said ' Mr. Glover, "that I offered to pay him .£l5O to take all the blame in the robbery charges at Auckland, and to find him a Government billet. I have been over 4!) years in Auckland. I value my reputation, which I can say is clean. I have never made such a statement as is im- . putcd to me, and as is published in the daily papers. On that denial I stake my reputation, and my whole life. Even my enemies—and every public man has' enemies—will not believe mo guilty of such wrong-doing. My friends who know 1 me will not even require my denial. (Hear, hear.) It is hard that a one-sided statement of such a damaging nature should be allowed to be circulated through New Zealand without a statement in reply. In justice to myself and my family, I ask the Tress Association to make public niy absolute denial, for a lie has a thousand legs, and uifornmately It is easy to think evil." (Applause.)