SLY GROGGERS
ASHBURTON CHARGES
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, , Aug. 9. As a sequel to a recent raid on huts on the river-bed, Robt. Samuel Stock and Frederick George Sheehan were charged with having solid liquor without a license. , Patrick Hanlon and Douglas AAilkinson were charged with •having assisted the others to sell. Stock pleaded guilty. Sheehan pleaded guilty to selling five bottles. 'Wilkinson and Hanlon pleaded not guilty. On exhibition in Court were ninetythree bottles of ,beer or whisky, in sugar bags. A constable said the men stated that £Bo' was spent in liquor in five months. The charges against Wilkinson and Hanlon were dismissed as there was no .evidence of the actual act of assistance. Stock and Sheehan, who have a list, were fined £25 each, in default a month’s imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 2
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