"AWARDED ACQUITTAL ON THEFT CHARGES," Toronto Star. May 11, 1943. Page 8. ---- Admitted Drinking 16 Pints of Beer, Fined $10 and Costs ---- Mimico, May 14 - Pleading guilty of being drunk in a public place, Donald Adam was fined $10 and costs in Etobicoke court held at Mimico. He was acquitted on charges of stealing three cases of beer from an Etobicoke township hotel and three wrenches from D. Richet.
Richet, manager of the hotel, said he observed accused deposit a case of beer on the ground beside two others outside the rear of the hotel. Later he found accused hiding behind a door after discovering three cases missing from the cooler.
"He had been drinking, but was not drunk and had no right to be in the hotel," he added. Witness identified three wrenches as his own, one of which he said was found on accused.
"It's all hazy; I can't remember very much about it," pleaded accused. He said he could remember stealing neither the beer nor the wrenches. Claiming he "must" have been intoxicated, he claimed to have drunk 16 pints of beer from five a.m. until evening when the offence occurred.
Robert Murphy was remanded in custody on a charge of receiving a purse and contents, knowing it to have been stolen. He was acquitted on a charge of stealing the same.
After leaving her purse on a table in a hotel room in which she had been banquetting to dance. Mrs. Margaret McGill said, she returned to find the purse containing money, ration book, compact and keys gone.
A charge of dangerous driving against William Grant was dismissed and a fine of $50 and costs imposed on a second charge of careless driving. The charges were laid following an accident in which five persons were injured.