CHARGES DISMISSED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 883, 7 February 1907, Page 20

CHARGES DISMISSED.

At the Thames Magistrate’s Court last Friday, Henry Brownlee, licensee of the Sa'utation Hotel, Thames, was charged with having kept his premises open for the purpose of sale, also with having exposed liquor for sale, during such time as the premises should be closed. In connection with the same case two men, named Miller and Gerrarty, were charged with having been on licensed premises after the hours of closing. Mr Fallon, who appeared for the prosecution, alleged that on the night in question the police visited the Salutation Hotel and found the men Miller and Gerrarty on the premises after the hours of closing. The bar was open, and there were evident signs of liquor having been supplied. Evidence was given by the police bearing out the statement. For the defence it

was submitted by Mr Clendon that the men, though not permanent boarders at the hotel, were staying there. . They had stopped at the hotel the previous nrght. Evidence was given to this effect by several witnesses, and eventually His Worship dismissed the information, holding that the evidence for the defence showed that the men. were staying at the hotel, and therefore no offence was disclosed.