RAILWAY SERVANTS
PLEAD GUILTY TO STEALING WHISKY. (By Telegraph.—Piess Association.) . Dunedin, November 16. George Alexander' Black, railway en-Kine-driver, and William W. Kirkwood, fireman, were charged at the Police Court with theft at Stirling of four bottles of .whisky, the property of the Government. Ihe case for the cution was that a case of whisky wa's consigned to Kaitangata. and while it was loft in the railway shed at Stirling four bottles were extracted. It was alleged that when the train reached
Milton throe full bottles and a fourth couaining a small quantity of liquid were thrown in the furnace-of the engine, and that accused wore under the influence of liquor. Accused pleaded guilty. It was stated that Black had been over eighteen years in the service, and Kirkwood about riino years. Both accused were remanded so that their solicitors might produce evidence as to charaoter.. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 3
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145RAILWAY SERVANTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2309, 17 November 1914, Page 3
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