The Hawera Still Case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 65, 18 February 1885, Page 2

The Hawera Still Case.

— ' — ■ ♦ EXTRACTS FROM THE EVIDENCE. ' '":■ (Hawera Star.) ' ■ Peter Smith, a Prussian, was charged bri the information of David Luridori with having on 18th November, aided and abetted John Anderson m illicitly '^making .-whisky.; ■-• ■ - .■-■•>«*■ •• - ; Joseph Jessop repeated the evidence he had given m the first case, and added that defendant and Anderson told him tnat* they had simply poured boiling water on the malt, but they had not taken the temperatures ; he saw neither whisky nor was there. To Mr Hamerton — Did not see Smith helping Anderson to make spirits. *~" Sergeant Anderson— On the morning of the 10th inst, defendant made a statement to me. I took it down m writing. [Statement put in.] The etfect of the statement was that ■waboutnine months ago Anderson, Lough, ;-and-:-life tried to. make whisky, but could '.not succeed, and "then Jessop was brought down, who made one lot p£Hvhisky and v^ermenfed. another, le^viogi^heni to run ■it 6ff jfoeihselves.'; Jessop w?ote offering "to dome up again at phristmas, but bet ing-tired, of the. matter they 'did not respond. Defendant, gettiiig disgusted,smashed the. whole affair up, and threw the plant over a cliff and tried to burn ;.the whare. When Jefesop was at Anderson's,- he told them he had a- share m a still near Pahnerston with a farmer named'xStew'aEt and» another man ;j that they made a good' article, all kinds of spirits, and disposed of it He offered .to sell! them a worm for J£l, which he said was a superior article ; it was the one he had when ho got into trouble at Palmerston, and had been r concealed under the English Church.' Jessop also said that on his way up he liad sold & quarter cask of whisky at Wangaehu.