CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 12

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE.

DISP/IISSAL OF CHARGE. " In this case I have two entirely different stories told by two young men, and I shall have to give accused the benefit of the doubt," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, 8.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when Walter McCann, aged 32, engineer, appeared on a charge of using the telephone to make a false statement with the intention of making Cyril Lewis act to his substantial detriment. James ITeares, motor mechanic, who was formerly a fellow-employee with McCann under Lewis, said that on February 15 McCann suggested to witness that he should put through a telephone call to Lewis telling him that a. taxi had broken down at Otalnihu, and requesting him to send a towing-car and mechanics. Witness did this. Cyril Lewis, garage proprietor, said that, on receiving the telephone message he became suspicious, and, as the result of inquirios, did not send a car to Otahuhu. A denial that McCann had suggested (he telephone message to Heares was made by another motor mechanic, Edwin Douglas Hart, who stated that Ileares had said ho was tired of his job and was going to ring Lewis and tell him he would not be back at work. " I am not prepared in the circumstances to convict McCann," said the magistrate, in dismissing the case.