LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 18

LIQUOR AFTER HOURS

LICENSEE'S FATHER FINED SERVED WITHOUT AUTHORITY A generous impulse was claimed in the Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr. J. M'Grath to be a possible explanation of John Berryinun admitting a man to the Brunswick Hotel after hours without authority and giving him two bottles of beer. Berrymim was charged with having supplied liquor niter hours; his son, Robert Berryman, the licensee, with having sold liquor after hours and exposing liquor-for sale after hours; and George Frederick Leney with having been found on the premises after hours. Leney admitted the offence. Mr. M'Grath pleaded guilty on behalf of John Berryman and not guilty for Robert Borryman. The police evidence wag to the effect that Senior-Sergeant Butler and Sergeant Bonish visited tho Brunswick Hotel about 9.30 p.in. on 24th November, and simultaneously on their arrival at the premises n side door was opened by John Berryman; with whom was another man. The police officers went into the hotel, and in the bar, which was in semi-darkness, found Leney, who was in possession of two bottles of beer. Leney admitted he had bought the liquor at the hotel, and Berryman said he had supplied the liquor. When Robert Berryman, who was in bed at the time the police arrived, was .spoken to he stated his father hud a key of the bar 1 and a key of the cellar, but had no right to supply anyone except bona tide lodgers. Another police officer, Sergeant Oleary, said that when he served the summons on John Berryman the defendant was in the bottle store rolliug up something, which he handed to a man, who then went away. It appeared to him that John Berryman was in charge of the bottle store. Mrs. J. Berryman said that during the five months she had been in the hotel her husband had never worked f i the bar or the bottle store as far as she was aware. It was s/.nted by Robert Berryman that his father, had no interest in the hotel and had no Uking for the hotel business. Asfar as he knew- his father had not served any liquor other than the two bottles. He had no authority to serve. John Berryman said he went downstairs on the evening in question to get his wife a bottfe of ginger ale, but heard a knock on the door and opened it. Leney was outside, but at that time he did not know the man. Leney, however, said he had been coining to the hotel for about six years nnd wanted two bottles of beer. After hesitating he let. Leney in and served him, but admitted he had no right to do so. To Sub-Inspeetor Lander witness said that once or twice he had served liquor at the hotel. He could not remember what he was wrapping up the day the sergeant called with the summons. The Magistrate (Mr. K. Pago, S.M.) thought the evidence just fell short of establishing that the father had authority to act for the licensee. He would dismiss the charges against the licensee, but would convict the father. John Berryman was lined £5 and costs, and Leney £2 arid costs.