THE ONLY WAY.
JUDGE WIIiUAMS ON INFORMERS.
(By Telegraph.—frees Association.*
Ounedin, May 15. The question of the means to be adopted bv tho police in tho detection of sly grogselling was referred to in tho Supremo Court to-day. In summing up in a case of alleged illicit traffic in liquor, Mr. Justice Williams statod that it was perfectly well recognised that strategy had to be used in order to catch people at this business. It was perfectly legitimate that strategy should be used, because the offenders could not be caught without it, nor coma it be expected that a person who acted as an informer must necessarily bo a. very desirable individual. In the present case the person to whom liquor was altoed to havo been sold had been actuated in the matter, not by greed for, money, but because he had a upito against tho accused. That was an element which must bo taken into consideration ljtqociding how far his evidence was credible.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1441, 16 May 1912, Page 4
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164THE ONLY WAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1441, 16 May 1912, Page 4
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