A "PUT-UP JOB"
CALL TO THE POLICE
"This was a 'put-up job.'surely, and on Christmas Eve, too," said Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M,. in the Magistrate's Court today, when referring to a telephone message to the police stated to have come from a porter of the Regent Hot tel and advising the police that trouble was occurring at the Regent Hotel. Sergeant Black and a constable visited the hotel, found several 'persons in the bar, and took their names, but found no disturbance of any kind. Mr. Hewitt heard' evidence that those in the bar were bona fide guests of residents at the hotel, and dismissed the charges. He observed that the person who rang the.police was possibly the same as the ,6ne v who was interested in the stickers all over the place | at the time, • declaring the hotel | "black." ■-■■■• . ■ . . I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 11
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