MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 12

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

A WITNESS STRANDED IN SYDNEY. When Albert Garrard and Herbert William Bna-rs, licensee of tho Citj Hotel, wero charged before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday with having supplied liquor to a youth under 21 years of age, Acting-Sub-Inspector Duiwson suul tho position was rather awkward, > as the vis at present stranded in Sydney. Mr. Frazer remarked that unle. c s the polico could settle the difficulty between tho seamen and the Union < ompuuy its was afraid the witness would have ta remain in Sydney. ' • - The caso was adjourned sine die. A fireman named Charles Edwards Mains was charged with drunkenness and with tlio theft of three glasses. When taken into custody it was found that Adams had the glasses in his possession, consequently ho was accused of having stolen them. Adams explained that he cud his mates wero playing jokes on one another in the bar 'of a hotel, and wero putting various articles in one another's pockets. Some of his friends must have put tlio glasses into his while the frolicsome proceedings wero at their height. Mr.'Frazer 6aid the defendant's ftory WAo quite feasible, ;0 1-e d.'s'u.svtd 11-e chai'ge of theft. For drunkenness Adamson was fined ss. For breaches of prohibition orders Thomas James Stimson was fined -XI, anl Agnes Campion, Willia a fc'lccns, anil •Tosey Williams 10s. ea:h. (