AN INTERRUPTED DRINK.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 850, 21 June 1906, Page 21

AN INTERRUPTED DRINK.

Last Friday, in the local Police Court, Samuel Edward Buchanan pleaded not guilty to supplying liquor to a prohibited person, and guilty to being on hotel premises during the hour when the hotel should be closed without lawful excuse. Sergeant Moore stated that he saw Buchanan come out of the Railway Terminus Hotel on a Sunday morning with a bottle of beer in his possession. . r; He entered a stable, and on witness following he found Frank Hill, a prohibited person, drinking a bottle of beer. When asked what he meant by it, Buchanan said that he did. not know that the man was prohibited. There had been no suggestion thatthe man was prohibited until then. For the defence witness stated that he procured liquor for himself, and that Hill picked it up and drank it. Hill stated that he saw the liquor there half an hour before the policeman took it away from him. Sergeant Hendrey: “And Buchanan has just said that he bought the beer a moment before. Remember, you are open to a prosecution for perjury.” His Worship said that it was a contemptible thing to tempt a man whom the law sought to protect from himself. He inflicted a fine of £5 and costs on the first charge and £2 and costs on the second.