THE TROUNCING OF TAYLOR.

NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 5

THE TROUNCING OF TAYLOR.

The case against George Taylor, licensee of the Fitzroy Hotel, for supplying drink to an intoxicated person was partly heard last Monday and was then adjourned till next week. Taylor pleaded not guilty. It will be remembered that the police tried to prejudice the minds of the.Licensing Committee a week or two back by mentioning the details of this charge before Taylor had actually been found guilty. The Committee then very rightly declined to hear anything about it until the Magistrate's decision had been given. Even, on Monday the prosecution displayed a tendency TO PLAY THE GAME LOW DOWN. However, Mr May, who was.prosecuting, started away by making the bald statement that the case was a very bad one and a very clear one. The man to whom the liquor was supplied is a contractor named Poland, of Tuakau, who came to Auckland with a cheque of over £100. His relations were looking everywhere for him and found him at Taylor's Hotel helplessly drunk and half his money could not be accounted for. The suggestion from May's statement Was, of course, that Poland had done over £50 m at Taylor's, but when Poland got a word m he said that he had been on a solid sort of jag for six lovely, blissful days ; but volunteered the remark that he had very little cash when he went into the Fitzroy Hotel, and certainly had no gold on him. Then Lawyer May had to state that he did not mean that Poland was cobbed at this hotel. His opening statement left that impression, nevertheless. Poland, continuing, said that he was at Taylor's place on August 9 with a female named Dalziel. He had drinks, but wasn't certain, though he thought, that TAYLOR SERVED HIM. He wasn't even certain whether it was beer or whisky that he -drank. Taylor might have refused him Trink, t but h« did not recollect it. Alt<re-

ther Poland's recollections of his week's doings is of the haziest nature, and after his brother stated how he found him on a bed m the basement of the Fitzroy Hotel, beastly drunk, the further hearing was adjourned till next Monday.