COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 22 September 1932, Page 7

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BLENHEIAI, September 21. Af thc Magistrate’s Court to-day, I Thomas Arthur Williams was fined £lO. for selling milk containing 27 perl cent, of added water. * James Harold Costello, bankrupt, | was sent to gaol for two months, for . failing to keep the usual and proper : books of accounts. AUCKLAND, September 21. ■ B fore the- ship Raranga, left London, on August 11th. a thorough search was made for stowaways, none being found, but th e nex t day, James Norman Turner. 34, and Jame s Fitzgerald, 26, emerged from the coal bunk- ■ ers, ami gave themselves up. Wh<tn the men appeared at the Police Court, to-day. the police said they stowed away o n {he Tairoa at Wellington on May 24th, and spent 28 days in gaol in London. Then they knocked about London for a fortnight,! before, stowing away on the Raranga. I It was stated that shipping companies now had to employ a man to watch for stowaways. Both the accused were sentenced to three weeks in gaol. WELLINGTON, September 21. ! With th c discovery in the Supreme Court, that two witnesses had been

coached by his client, counsel for Airs Elizabeth McSperrin. who claimed damages for assault from Police Constable Anson, withdrew immediately from the i-ase. Justice Ostler lat-°r dismissed the woman’. ; tory ?.s “ridicuvns in itself.” He added that were sh e n <>t a sick woman, he would have instructed the po ice to proceed against h?r for interfering with witnesses. The trouble arose about a missing motor-car. and in I ebruary, Constable Anson called at plaintiff s house for her foster-son, who was wanted to give evidence in Court. Pla.ntiff refused to allow t he boy to go until he was dressed, and she alleged the constable push'>d past her, bumping her elbow and breast. In reply to His Honour, plaintiff said that tl’e bruise on the breast was about the size of a half-crown. showed it to the Commissioner of Po’icc, and tears cam? into his eyes.’* His Honour; What? Commissioner AVohhnann’s ? Plaintiff: Yes. Later in the case, it transpired that oiip of the witnesses had his evidence written out by plaintiff, and another plead d that he had left his evidence at home. Constable Anson gave evidence, amidst repeated interjections bv the plaintiff, that he wa s telling terrible lies. ’ ’