ALLEGED SLY GROG-SELLING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 521, 31 May 1909, Page 6

ALLEGED SLY GROG-SELLING.

A RAIl) BY THE POLICE. SEIZURE OF LIQUOR. Tho. Paragon boardinghouso, kept by Mrs. Barrio iii • Taranald ;.' Placed .was ; 'raided, 'on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Sub-Inspec-tor Phair, Sergeant Rutledgo, and a posse of police. Tho Sub-Inspector held' a search • warrant i under,the. Licensing 'Act, 1908,v.'t0 . search ;for liquor' found' on . the premises.. . About • a hundred bottles .'of'.' beor and ' about ; two .gallons ;of '-whisky'".'and gin 'wcr© 1 seized.' v.An* express; was brought alongside the; raent, v and * the • liquor '.was placed in it and ...taken ,to tho Lambton Quay polico station. ' , -l^o.-raid caused a larso crowd to collect in ..-• tho '.street,. and. when the liquor-' was .being plaoed. in, tho .-express, for somo reason ■ or /.other 'ja:- stqn©>was thrown- through one 'of . the windows •of -tho boardinghouso, ■ doing ,r, damage tq ; the extent/of £4; : < A man named -■ David Wright was arrested for throwing the', stone, Wind-will: appear, before tho Court this .and will appear before the Court this morit .•VBornjng;-. charged with wilful \damage; ; - ~ Barrio .was placed under • arrest,'' but being indisposed, she will not be called upon , .to: appear in. Court until a future 'dato. : Tho .iaragon boardinghouso was raided by Sergeant. Rutledgo several months ago, and a -Silo for sly grog-selling .was inflicted. ■■