A REVOLVER CASE

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 3

A REVOLVER CASE

IMPERTINENCE OF MAN WHO CAUSED TROUBLE. j (Per Press Associate n.J Auckland, last night. I A breach of the Licensing Act at the 1 Britomart hotel on July 19th, for which I the licensee and his wife were summoned at the Police Court, was shown to have originated through the cooduot of a '* mad J drunk ’’ man, who flourished a revolver, j and was not satisfied until he obtained a I whisky and soda. Defendants, William John Baker and bis wife (Ann Jane Bake), wore charged with having unlawfully sold intoxicants to Alexander Guddiford, who j was already In a state of drunkenness. Mr J. O. Martin, who, represented the Bakers, said the faot3 were not disputed. Baker was absent from the hotel on busijaess, and left his wife in charge. Guddiford me In, and made trouble in the passage e hotel, where he wandered about with a revolver. He threatened to shoot some-

ooe outside, but did not try to use the re- ] volyer in tbe hotel. One of his friends offered to take him borne, but be obstinately refused until he got drink. Mrs Baker tried to satisfy him with a non-in-toxicant drink, but be refused it. At last Mrs Bakor consented to give Guddiford a whisky and soda, and his friends took him

*“Hway j \ V Mr 8. Mays (representing the Crown j i stated that the facts mentioned j 1 by Mr Martin were substantially correct, I 1 but Guddiford, soon after leaving the hotel, was arrested by the polios in a mad state of drunkenness. He was flourishing a re-1 volvor, and had a pookei full of cartridges, which did not fit it, 1 His Worship came to the conclusion that J the breach of the Aot’ was not deliberate. 1 Baker was discharged upon paying costs, 1 and Mrs Baker was fined a nominal amount of 6s, with costs. Guddiford, who was doscribod by Mr Hays as thß author of the mischief, was asked if be claimed expenses for attending the Court as a witness. He replied in the affirmative. “ I am surprised at your impertinence," sharply replied tho Magistrate, who dis allowed the application, and suggested that Onddiford ought to pay tho expenses of the people whom he had put to ao muoh JIQUble,