THE COURTS.
ALLEGED WHISKY STILL,. j By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timiru, Saturday Night. | At the Police Court to-day, a young i man named Spurdou was charged 'ivitfl i stealing an octave of whisky and a demijohn o.f water from the Crown Hotel, and four foreign seamen belonging | U) the barque Ashmore were eliargea with receiving the same. Inspector Green stated that Spurdon implicated ! another Timaru man, who could not he found. Spurdon denied the stealing himself, hut admitted watching outsi U: Hie hotel for the police, lie was convicted and lined 40s, and ordered to pay .t4 for whisky consumed or wasted, in delimit one month. The seamen, who said the barrel was given them by two Englishmen, were convicted and lined ss, and ordered to pay £2 each, in default 14 days' imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 140, 12 July 1909, Page 2
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133THE COURTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 140, 12 July 1909, Page 2
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