SLY-GROGGER GETS THREE MONTHS’ GAOL
POLICE SURPRISE PARTY
(From Our Resident Correspondent.') WELLINGTON, To-day.
A constable who entered the small confectionery shop of Charles E. R. Ruddick and bought several bottles of beer for Is Gd each and a glass at 9d, brought his policemen friends on the following evening and raided the premises, where eight men were having a party from a sly-grog keg which Ruddick was conducting. The police alleged that the confectionery business was merely a blind, and the maximum penalty was asked, as Ruddick is on bail on a breaking and entering charge, and as the possessor of a long list. Counsel said Ruddick’s shop was used extensively as a depot for private parcels, and from this Ruddick had drifted into the practice of buying liquor for friends, and then into the sly-grog business. Mr. E. Page, S.M., said he had twice previously been convicted for this offence.
On one charge he would be convicted and discharged, on the second sentenced to three months’ gaol.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 11
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169SLY-GROGGER GETS THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 11
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