A Licensing Scandal.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, This Day. In the charge against Bear, Rapiport, and Baxter, that they accepted a bribe in a licensing case, the principal witness for the Crown, Gilbert Hmith, who was recently arrested at Perth on a charge of perjury, refused to give evidence. The other witnesses, however, swear that bribes had been given, but Rapiport and Baxter swear they never received a bribe and that they did nob know the landlady of the hotel in question. An endeavour will be made to force Smith to give evidence^
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 183, 6 February 1896, Page 2
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93A Licensing Scandal. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 183, 6 February 1896, Page 2
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