TROOPERS AND DRINK
FIRST CASE OF ITS KIND IN THE : CITY. .'A case—the first of its kind in the City—was heard in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon by Mr. 6. Cruiokshank, S.M. James Shivnan, a blacksmith, was charged with having acted as an agent for the purchase of liquor for a member of the Expeditionary Force, for consumption off ■ licensed' premises. Mr. H. F. O'Leary, on behalf ofaccused, entered 51 p>lea of not guilty. Tlie evidence given by the trooper who was alleged to'have received the liquor was that he purchased three bottles of whisky from Shivnan for £1. To Mr. O'Leary the trooper denied that he was drunk at the time. He waß a West Coaster, 'he said, and could stand a lot of drink.
■ Defendant gave evidence _ that the trooper had come to him with a flask of whisky j ho (defendant) had not sold him any hauor._ The trooper must have procured the liquor somewhere else. The Magistrate decided there was not suffipient evidence and dismissed the information.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 6
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171TROOPERS AND DRINK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 6
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