WARNED BY THE MAGISTRATE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 3

WARNED BY THE MAGISTRATE.

DUNEDIN, 19th April. j A case presenting some unusual fea- ' tures came before the City Police Court, to-day / when ' Cecil Lean, a youth, was charged with throwing v missile on 24th March.'. Among the witnesses called by, the police was Horace Edwards, a farm labourer. He first of all denied remembering the evening- of 24th March, and then denied knowing anything about tho case, or of having spoken about it lo Mounted Constable Hodgson, or having been asked any .questions about it, or about anything by Hodgson. He denied having seen Hodgson before 13th April, when the constable served the Mubpuana and summons (Edwards bein"defendant in' another ease arising out oi stone-throwing). Even then he "did not know Hodgson was a constable. Edwards was , warned by the magistrate and Sub-Inspector Cruickshank, but he professed complete ignorance of tho whole affair. The ease against Lean was dismissed. ' Cdcil Lean, Frank Guy, and Horace Edwards, were then chaiged with 'ißin°indecent and obscene language. They elected to be tried summarily, and pleaded not guilty. % His Worship said : "With regard to this man Edwards 1 am not going, to indicate any course, but roy notes are available, and" [to the sub-inspector) "you had better take ad- : vide."