POLICE RAID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 6

POLICE RAID.

ALLEGED WHISKY STILL,

A raid was made by tho Wellington"police yesterday on. premises situated at 41 Adelaide Road, and occupied by Maurice John Ullins and Thos. Matthews. The premises consist of a shop fronting the road,' and a dwelhng apparently unoccupied. The shop has been used by Collins for the purposo of carrying-on a large cordial business, and several days ago tho polic'o received certain information which appeared' to render a visit desirable.

;_ Accordingly, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, Chief Detectivo Broberg, accompanied by Detectives Cassells, Lewis, and Andrews, approached the premises. They separated into pairs, Chief Detective Broberg and Detective Lewis watching at .the- front, while Detectives Cassolls and Andrews climbed a high wall and got round to.the- back door, inen they waited for a short,.time,to,make ;Btiri/ that tbero, was 'someone inside the "suspected' building. ' They '.'had not long to .wait, for by and by, one of the men appeared casually at the-, front door. On the approach of the detectives he went inside again and the police, found the door locked against them. Chief Detective Broberg and Detective Lt>wis immediately burst the door open and went through .to <the.>scullery, ar- . riving there' simultaneously. with Detectives Cassolls: and Andrews, who had effected, an entrance at the back.. The two men,. Mat-' thews and Collins, who were in the scullery, were promptly arrested. In the corner of the scullery what is alleged to be a still was fitted. The bottom, portion consisted of a 12-gallon copper boiler, which was set in brickwork. To the boiler a head was fitted, and attached to the head was a long copper worm,-which'coiled away into a large water boiler, where it was submerged in water with the object, it is claimed, of carrying out - the cooling process of the distillation. '..",' The "still," on being removed from, the ■brickwork,' was found to contain some gallons of liquid. In an adjoining room tho detectives found a barrel containing a largo quantity of .-whisky,'.and also caskscontaining certain liquids. There is nothing in the' premises which renders them specially suitable for the carrying on of an illicit manufacture. The two men, together with the plant, were conveyed to the police station yesterday, and- will be charged before the magistrate this morning.