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POLICE CHARGES FAIL. *

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POLICE CHARGES FAIL. CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE IN FLAT CASES. Miss Catherine Goldie \TI), actress, nurrendered to bail at .Marlborough-street on Friday on a charge of conducting a flat in La n,g"h aril-street in objectionable manner. Mr. Newton defended. Last week Sergeant Harvey and Constable Goymer, of the D Division, deposed to seeing persons f,r a. certain class go to the flat. Miss Goldie. on oath, denied the accusation, and declared that she was out of London during the time of the police watching. For the police to eay she let the persons in question into the flat was entirely untrue. When Miss Goldie was called upon on Fri- day Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the Mary- lebone Borough Council, said mere was no need for her to formally surrender and take her place before the court. lie had con- sidered the matter, and the borough council having no wish but that all persons accused ehould have the fairest treatment, in view of the nature of the evidence that would be put before the court, he did not propose to proceed further. Mr. Newton said that in fairness to Miss Goldie he ought to make a few remarks. Statements of a defamatory character had been circulated far and wide concerning Miss Goldie. If the case had gone on he would have been able to prove by the books of Mr. Seymour Hicks and twenty witnesses of position that when this lady was said by the police to be admitting women to her fiat she was actually on the stage of Mr. Hicks's theatre. With regard to the assertion that this lady had walked the streets, he had ladies and gentlemen present who had been associated with her for years, and could say such an accusation was absolutely untrue. Miss Goldie would leave the court with as good a character as ehe entered it. ("Hear, hear." from the public.) Mr. Chester Jones: I have heard both Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Newton. The defendant in this case will be discharged. OTHER CASES. Mrs. Maud Cooper (26) also surrendered to bail on a similar charge. At the pre- vious hearing Sergeant Harvey and Oon- stable Goymer gave evidence of having in Anga-ot seen certain persons go to the flat. —Mrs. Cooper, on oath, emphatically denied the accusation, stating that she was the wife of a Government official, with whom she was living at the flat. He was home every evening, returning from his office between five and six p.m. At the resumption of the hearing Sergeant -Survey, re-called, in cross-examination, said that he had ascertained that Mrs. Cooper was the wife of a gentleman who had been in a position under Government for about twenty years. He did not know the names of any of the women wno went to the flat He had 80011 them in the streets, but had not seen them since the raid on the flats He had searched the charge-books, but could not trace that one of the women had been charged. He could not have made a mis- take as to what he saw-Constable Goyner re-called, gave similar evidence. The women visitors to the flat had vanished since the raid. He also had seen them in the streets. Mr. John Alfred Cooper, husband of the defendant, stated that during the period of police observation he and his wife were at home every evening. His wife was in bed several evenings when stated to have gone out and returned. Mr. Cooper stated tha.t he was a collector of rates to the Water Board. After hearing further evidence, the Jtcc"Qs-o<i was discharged. In a third case, in which Mrs. Jessie Craw- ford was charged with respect to a flat also in-fh^an?bam"6treet' the prosecution was withdrawn, and defendant discharged. I

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BURGLARS' .£600 HAUL.

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L" UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL."

JUDGE AND WIDOW.

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