THE WHISKY DRINKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 218, 3 February 1913, Page 6

THE WHISKY DRINKERS.

AX INGENIOUS THEFT. Invercargill, Friday. Arthur P>. Cook was charged at the Police Com t to-day with the theft of ten gallons of whisky, valued at £l4, I the property of the Invercargill corporation. Accused pleaded guilty to the offence, which was committeed on January 27. Mr. Eustace Russell, who appeared for accused, said that on the day previous to the one on which the offence was committed, both the accused and another man, named McQuarrie, had been unloading casks of whisky from the s.s. Invercargill on to the jetty, and then carrying them to the store. On the day of the information they purchased a keg of beer from one of the depots, and having consumed the contents, proceeded to the jetty with the empty keg and an auger. They got under the wharf, and McQuarrie placed the auger between two flooring hoards, and bored a hole through one of the casks, letting the whisky run into the empty keg. When it was filled they stopped up the hole, proceeded home, consumed some of the liquor and bottled the remainder. By this time they were considerably intoxicated, and made a second visit to the jetty for more of the whisky. While getting the ''return" tliey 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, and allowed McQuarrie's case to stand over until a future date.