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THE ETHICS OP SPYING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The question of the means to be adopted by the police in the detection of sly-grog-selling was referred to in the Supreme Court to-day. la summing up in a case of alleged illicit traffic in liquor Mr. Justice Williams said that it was perfectly well recognised that strategy had to be used in order to catch people at this business. It was perfectly legitimate that strategy should be used, because the offenders could not be caught without it; nor could it be expected that persons who acted as informers must necessarily be very desirable individuals. In the present case the person to whom liquor was alleged to have been sold had been actuated in the matter not by greed for money, but because he had a spite against the accused. That' was an element which must be taken into consideration in deciding how far_ his evidence was credible.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 274, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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160SLY GROG Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 274, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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