OPIUM IN PRISON PRECINCTS
SECRETED BY FRIENDS OUTSIDE [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 22. Found late at night in a vegetable garden at Mount Crawford prison. At Bing, a Chinaman with aliases, pleaded guilty through an interpreter to being in possession of prepared opium and to leaving about the grounds of the prison where Chinese prisoners are usually employed letters, tobacco, and opium. The superintendent of the prison, said Senior-sergeant Dempsey, had asked him to say that the prison authorities were troubled by men entering the ground and secreting property to be found by prisoners. On the first charge the accused was fined £25, and on the second £lO, in default three months’ imprisonment.
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Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 8
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115OPIUM IN PRISON PRECINCTS Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 8
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