AFTER SIX

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 2

AFTER SIX

A BOTTLE OF GIN. ALLEGED SALE TO PROHIBITED MAN. Before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Michael McEnroe, license'e of the Thistle Inn, appeared on summons on a. charge of supplying liquor to Georg© Longhurst (a prohibited pepson) after horu-s. The police stated that a man named Longhurst, who, on being accosted, gave his name as Robinson, -was seen coming out of the Thistle Inn on the date in question at about 6.15. A constable had approached him, and saw he was carrying something, which Longhurst said was a bottle of beer, but which proved to be a bottle of gin. Sergeant Carroll said he had interviewed McEnroe, who denied having served Longhurst with the bottle of gin. George T. H. Longhurst said that, on the date in question, he was in the Thistle Inn, and bought a bottle of gin from McEhroe, the proprietor. A TOTAL DENIAL. Evidence for the defence was given by a barman employed at the Thistle Inn, who stated that, after he had locked up at 6 o’clock, he found Longhurst in the backyard, a.nd had shown him out on to the street through the hotel parlour. Michael McEnroe, the proprietor of the Thistle Inn, denied that he 6old liquor to Longhurst. His Worship, in view of the contradictory evidence, was unable to convict, and dismissed the information.