His surprise can be imagined when he was haled before the court on the charge above mentioned. The police seemed to have no witnesses to support their case, and took the extraordinary course of calling the gentleman who had en gaged the cab, and whose evidence, of course, was directly against the constable and in favour of the cabman. The Bench thereupon, without calling upon Moore head to make an explanation cr to call his witnesses, dismissed the case as one of too trivial a sort to take up more of its time. Morehead has therefore been put to great expense in the way of solicitor's fees and other ex penses, to say nothing of his loss of time, all through the interference of a policeman who, if he had any doubt as to whether the man had really been en could easily have Eettled the point by re ferring to one of the gentlemen who had engaged the cab. From the evidence adduced there can be no mistake that Constable Keenan was guilty of an action that is a strong reflection upon him, and, if he is allowed to bring charges against reputable people on the flimsiest of pre tests, no one — cabman or otherwise — will be able to pursue one's calling in the public streets without fear of molesta tion.
