HAWERA POLICE COURT;

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 371, 19 December 1882, Page 2

HAWERA POLICE COURT;

— ♦■ [Before P. G. Wilson and F. McGuire, Esqra. | Monday, December 18. William Ellis alias " Fiddler Bill,'' and John Steer pleaded not guilty to a charge of beiug found by night without lawful excuse in Messrs. Crawford's brewery. Frederick Adorns deposed that at four in the morning lie saw Ellis put his head through a broken pane of glass into the brewery cellar; he then withdrew it, pulled his coat off and entered bodily. Steer remained outside on the platform close to the window. Witness then went to the front of the' brewery and called up Mr. Barleyman, who was sleeping in a front room, and informed him, of what was going on at the back. ' Mr. J. Barleyman said, on being called up, I saw Ellis just in the act of leaving the cellar through the window. Steer was waiting outside the window. They bad no authority to be on the premises. Sergeant- Major Goodall said he arrested the prisoners near the premises at about 5 in- the morning, and submitted that by the Aot, night was defined as being from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Steer in his defence, said (pointing to his fellow prisoner), " My Nabs here said he knew the brewers, and would go in and call them up. 1 ' He then crept in through the window, and I remained outside. Ellis said that's right, I have nothing else to say. ■' • Ellis was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in New Plymouth gaol, and was reminded that the occupants of the brewery did not sleep in the cellar. Steer was discharged with ' a suitable caution.