BORING FOR WHISKY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 5

BORING FOR WHISKY

TWO INGENIOUS INDIVTDUALSi APPROPRIATE CORPORATION’S LIQUOR. Press Association. INVERCARGILL, January 31, Arthur B. Cook was charged at the Police Court to-day with tho theft of ten gallons of whisky, valued at £l4, the property of the Invercargill Corporation. Tho accused pleaded guilty to the offence, which was committed on January 27th. Mr Eustace Russell, who appeared for the accused, said that on the day previous to tho on© on which the offence was committed the accused and another man named McQuarrie had been unloading casks of whisky from tho s.s. Invercargill on to the jetty, and then carrying them to the store. On tho day of the. information they purchased a keg of beer from one of tho depots, and having consumed the contents proceeded to the jetty with tho empty keg and an auger. They got under tho wharf, and McQuarrie placed the auger between two flooring boards, and bored a hole through one of the casks, lotting the whisky run into tho empty keg. When it was filled they stopped up the hole, proceeded homo, consumed some of the liquor, and bottled the remainder. By this timo they were considerably intoxicated, and made a second visit to the jetty for more of the whisky. While getting the “return,” they had allowed a quantity of the contents to run on the ground beneath, and this resulted in the theft being detected. He asked for probation. His Worship could not see his way to grant probation, and sentenced Cook to three months’ imprisonment. He allowed McQuamo’s case to stand over until a future date.