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IRAILWAY PROSECUTIONS AT LLANDUDNO.

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RAILWAY PROSECUTIONS AT LLANDUDNO. Singular Excuse Tendered. At Llandudno Petty Sessions on Monday, be- fore Mr E. Wood and other justices, Vivian Howard Kettlcy, of Castle View, Marine Crescent, Deganwv, was charged with attempt- ing to defraud the Railway Company. Mr Fenna, who prosccutod, said that Mr KcWcy arrived at Dcganwy with the'7.15 p.m. train from tho Junction on September 8th. He tendered oixfxince to tho ticket collector, and told him to take a penny as his fare from the Junction The collector asked for his Junction platform ticket. Afteir searching his pocket he eventually said that he did not possess a ticket, and finally admitted that he had gone to the Junction from Llandudno without paying the faro by a train which did not stop at Deganwy, and that he then went back to Degallwy and made the statement that he had only travelleu from the Junction. Samuel Townsend, ticket-collector at Degan- wy. having given corroborative evidence, defen- dant was fined 20s and costs. HOLYWELL NEWSAGENT FINED: SINGULAR EXCUSE. Arthur Edward Davies, stationer, of Glany- don( Greenfield, Holywell, was charged wit-h, having paid his fare as a passenger, knowingly having proceeded an additional distance with intent to avoid payment of the additional fare. Mr Fenna stated that the defendant booked from Holywell to Rhyl, but eventually got to Bangor. At the exit he produced his Holywell to Rhyl ticket, but then said that was not the right one, putting it back into his pocket. He then showed a ticket from the Junction to Llan- fair, and was allowed to pass out, retaining It for the unused portion of the journey. On his return to the station he was asked for his ticket by another collector as poon as he was sea.t1 in the train for Llanfair. He produced li« Hiokeb to the lattar place, and ak-o that from Holywell to Rhyl. The collector asked for tho latter to bo given up, and Davies replied that he wanted to keep it as a curiosity, and to show his wife where he had been. "I do not know the efficacy of that reason," remarked Mr Fenna. "Strictly the collector should have re- quired the ticket to be given up, but he allowed h; m to retain it." Both a/t this examination ami at the barrier the defendant said nothing about "his journey between Rhyl and th Junction fer which the fare ha-d not been paid. AL Llanh ir ho afterwards admitted that he had evaded his payment for this section of the journey FI'idcTioe was r.(ven by Pacific Brown, Morris Owen and Detective Hughes (Bangor), and by Oliver T Weeks Llanfair. The <Jehnd,mi was fined 40s and costs.

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