Alleged Sly-Grog Selling
INFORMERS CHASED. Two cases of alleged sly-grog selling were heard before the Magistrate at Ashburton on Saturday. Decision was reserved. Four more cases will be heard on Thursda/ next. After the adjournment of the cases a large crowd waited for two hours outside the courthouse for the informers to come. The police got the informers out by the back way and drove them to Chertsey, twelve miles distant, to board the express for Christchurch. This becoming known, from forty to fifty men boarded the train at Ashburton for Chertsey, intending to catch the informers there. The police outwitted the crowd and got the informers Hall, Withey and Henderson into the guard’s van, which the mob surrounded, hooting and groaning. One window of the van was smashed with a stick or stone. Prosecutions are expected to follow..
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Manawatu Herald, 19 April 1904, Page 2
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139Alleged Sly-Grog Selling Manawatu Herald, 19 April 1904, Page 2
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