>From The Argus, 2 July 1932 - SWORN EVIDENCE DISBELIEVED. Disbelief of evidence given on oath was ex-pressed by the chairman of the Bench (Mr. J. Baragwanath, J.P.) at the South Melbourne Court on Friday, when Herbert Ahern fur cutter, Chapel street, Prahran, and Percival Smith, Gordon street, Toorak were each charged with having loitered at the corner of Nimmo and Danks streets, Albert Park on the morning of June 23, with intent to commit a felony. Constable Williams said that with other members of the police wireless patrol he saw the men standing near a fence and questioned them. In Ahern's pockets were a strong knife and an electric torch. About 200 yards away an attempt had been made to enter premises by scraping mortar away from the bricks of a wall. Ahearn and Smith both said that they had attended a party in Victoria street, Brunswick, and after leaving a girl in Nimmo street, they were returning home. Mr. Baragwanath--Your story is an unbelievable one for a man with any common sense. You start to take a young girl home and then allow her to run home unprotected. A beautiful story. Ahearn was fined £10, in default imprisonment for two months, and Smith was fined £5, in default imprisonment for one month. ------------------------------------------------ Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper Aherns in Australian Records http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahcrim.htm ------------------------------------------------