REFUSAL TO PAY BILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 199, 26 August 1935, Page 8

REFUSAL TO PAY BILL

MAGISTRATE' UOMMENDS ACTION. ' In refusing tv pay a bill that was pul before him, a guest at a bot.lvparty was supported in his attitude by Mr. Sandbach, a London magistrate, who remarked: “1 should think anybody with a grain of sense '. ho had an cut rageous bill like that piosented to th.-in would immediately in use to pay it." The case was that in which Norman Ransom, aged 32, electrical engineer, of Chester, w;u charged with obtaining 1 food, value Bs, by lalse pretences at Regent Strict. Jack Edelman, lessee of premises .•ailed the “Cabaret,'’ told the magistrate that bottle parties were held there. At 2 a.m. a Mr. West and a party of three arrived, including Ransom, and drinks, which had been ordered previously, were supplied from a wine company. Food was supplied to three of th? men, ami Ransom was presented with the bill. He refused to pay it, and eventually declared he. would send for a policeman. Cross-examined by Mr. Hornby, for Ransom. Mr. Edelman said a form was signed for a bottle of whisky, which

canid to 245. The me:.l cunsi.eed of potatoes ami soda water. Magistrate: How much won! I tho chips c< st ’-—About 2.1. Ami what would the two sodas cost 1 About 9d cac<h. Are you surprised he objected to pay 8s tor that? - He was not objecting to the amount of the bill. Magistrate: I am surprised he did nc-t. After making the above remark, Mr. Sandbach said. “You. Ransom, are discharged, and there is not the slightest reflection on your character.”