The ease of D. Gilmore against Mme Helen Piper was resumed in H. M. Supreme Court on Friday before Judge P. Grant Jones. It will bbe recalled that the plaintiff, formerly a manager of the Rubicon Inn, sJowned by defendant, is suing her for $4,075 for 3 months' salary for! rronglul disiites, for board and Todging for the same period, for money paid out on the defendant's behalf, for salary in arrears, and, for money for plaintiff's transport back to the U.S.A.
Against this, the defendant add- mite owing he sum of $22, but claims $136 for drinks by the plain-at the Inn, and denies the rest. Mr. Ranald MeDonald appears. for the plaintiff? and Mr. Victor Priest-for the defendant.
When the case was opened, Madame Helen Piper was still bei lerps-examined y Mr. BMcDonal Il In reply to his questions, she said she had often asked Gilmore to check. the stock of liquor in the bar and in the cupboard on locking up. 'She indignantly repudiated the that she had given orders for inferior brands of liquors to be substituted for high grade drinks, or that she hed dismissed Gilmore' because he refused to be a party to She admitted not answering a letter from plaintiff's lawyers, Messrs, Fessenden & Holcomb, and said she had not attached any importance to this letter, dated July 11, nor to any Fubeequent one ae, fe-<ross-examined by Mr. Priestwood: Her agreement with the plainti was a. verbal one, and the letter he produced, signed by her, to the effect she was engaging him $300 a month, was merely. enable him to leave the Marine Camps.
'She' positively denied substituting the inferior grades of drinks, but admitted if she had she could have made a profit on. it. Such a thing was never done, however.
Regarding the suggestion that, she dismissed Gilmore because he re. fused to be a party to the substitu: tion, she said there was no truth whatsoever in it and. pointed out' that Gllnore was now employing the Darsbey she had dismissed.
The real weason why she di missed him was because absence, his continual. falsehoods, and his general neglect of his Regarding his threat to take the matter to court, she said she had paid no attention to it as she could not conceive any reason for his doing Mr. Priestwood: What reason do ascribe to his instructing. his lawyers to write to you?—i don't want to use the word in court.
His Lordship: AN words are permissible in court, Defendant: Weill, I was nite sure the man ves trying to indeed done sp for two years, but it never occurred to him to try and iea|"work him out."
He further said that the plaintiet was in the habit of getting his salary in advance sums each month, and gave a receipt for each suck advance. He said that it was very suspicious. that a large number of these receipts had disappeared.
When I was looking for the re-sein he went on, Che eae in and said: Oh, my recei ave burn ed them." What about it?"
The hearing was then adjourned, "Dreadful Lying"
"There is some dreadful lying going on somewhere, If it contin:
the papers will have to be sen tothe Crown Advocate," remarked Judge P. Grant Jones on Saturday, during resumed evidence by dda Silva, bookkeeper.
When the ease for the defence was concluded, his Lordship asked counsel to arrange a date for legal argument, Asked by Mr. McDonald why 60 pages of a salary list were missing, Da Silva, said he tore out these When hevjoined Mme Piper in July, 1981, 'They were entries by another clerk, and did not relate to the inn. "No proper accounts were Kept before he joined, Mme' Piper running the inn Without a manager, Referring to a number of entry MeDonald said. t woggeat the name D. Gilmore has been put in 48 @ most convenient afterthought to bolster up, your case, Witness: that is not so. this book or. the ledger to Gilmore You never thought of show it
Many"tine tte never naked for following the Previd aod With regard to his reason
Maren, witness replied awing' up 1 mont
{old him to "edsry on," and piaineit Would have some money" later. stated he was a building contractor, Ching Abvsam, entering the Yox, witness is obviously lying. Whethe= His Lordship: 1 am afraid the Dut later retracted this statement, it fs. 'q material lie ts another and said he was @ mason who em: question} but he certainly is lying. ployed men under him, whose wages Continuing: witness said the pay-he paid, Witness eaid that he re-ments to Gilmore during hig nine ceived large sums of money from months' employment. totalled about the foreign lady, and smaller sums $1,400. "'There was no. check of from the manager. He had received accounts between him and plaintitt all over $2,000, and had never in May. Questioned regarding the lent money to the plaintiff. Some stocktaking by. Gilmore, when he sums had been held back, but were: announced hig intention of handing now paid, over the stock to. witness) da. Silva F.'X. da Silva, bookkeeper and secretary {0 the defendant, was next said he asked why Jaintift included the list two bottles of Johnnie called. Plaintiff, he said, had never Walker "hal full of" Heather Feceived more than $200 @ month in whisky, and Gilmore said st was all wages and had never asked for: more. After giving details of the' cit" Withers had no. knowledge manner in which the Rubicon Inn's MeDonald: You say you do accounts were kept, he the first two weeks in April, which now whisky from ginr—tnae Was when witness moved out to the As an accountant you realise you Inn," plaintiff conducted himself it will' make more profit if you can He then started to drink, his face going red and puffy, lack in hhis dress, and used foul language.
On June 17, witness went to the Inn's vegetable garden on Monum: ment Road, and found it in urgent tention. He went there Piper's instructions, but by Gilmore, who arrived oon after, to get out.
After giving details of the plain-(i's slackness in dress, which, he id, offended witness's wife and the lady cashier, da Silva months after he had been dismissed, "On Sopteniber 6 this year, two
Gilmore telephoned mevand called me fo the Lincoln inn, There he said: Will give you $1,000 in cash if you wil! tell the Court that Madame per paid me $300 month.
Producing a small cross, witness swear by this cross he said Induce. the unwary public' to pay {for inferior Tquor at high prices?
not a barman. "T did of Understand ft, "T"'do mot drink myself.
Witness said Mme, Piper knew nothing of the list, as Gilmore told him not to show 4 to ber. On the following day," June 18, plaintiff took charge of the bar again. It Was not tue that defendant. gave Instructions for" substituting. inferior drinks, Mr. McDonald: Why did yon glance round at Mme. Piper fear as soon og you hud given that answer, Did" you. not know she said something entirely different'? mark' quoted "on "the subject The judge having made the reving, Mr. MeDonaid commented that witness would give his better if he. refrained from cone sly truing he actin of cccupted by Mme Piper.
That cross," said his Lordship sharply, "does not add to the sanctity of, the oath you have already taken.
Witness continued that he replied he would let Gilmore. kno went in to town by rickshaw more then caught him up and offer-him and Mis wife bein. the Lincoln ton. Witness again replied would let him know, and on returning to the Rubicon Inn, reported the matter to Madame Piper.
In reply to Mr, McDonald, he said that he had said "Pil let you know," [because he thought that, the best way to Jet him know he hed no intentions of accepting the offer. iva declared that when be Meite were: absent rom the fan, the bevy "were always. handed Trio Mrs Stewart, Te awas some He' in Sune "withers took over Eantrol of the Neve. The present manager, Mr. Kel Augist, So. fay og. oitness thew he never drank in the inn. witers denied" that He dibieed es tioned by. Br. Prestwood,
Gilmore. because he desired Sok pan out of he fb.
inesy_never suggested to. Mime
Tipnager Mme, Piper signed rthae he nel shoal Jor her' own "drinks, mostly beer, but did not pay. It was merely Mr, MeDonald: T put it to you that you saw Mr. Gilmore in the Presence of a friend of his?—Not the whole time And that you said: "Iam havin trouble with Madame Piper and will shortly be looking for a job"
their presence? aid not say
plata had only rung him up about _iitoess further denied that the bingo, the dog at the Inn, and that '$1,000 was never mentioned at Mr. da Silva said he thought that he could do the manager's. work better than Gilmore could, and had Mrs, Bana Stewart, Americ citleen, gave evidence that she hed fen cashier ay the fan for the last ince years. Gilmore, she a eototaller when be. for "about December he started Grins "Tle aid not, drink excessive:
until Barehy "however. Quite Gheen"he war drunk and alle hee Games. ay q result of which she Conpisined to Mme. Piper.
'At 10.90 pin. on June 27 plaiasid sce men "ery tight He ashe? fritness for $20; and om. ber. te-Toning' (in, ascofdance with Mine, Pipers orders, he pushed away from the desk and tried to
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