SLY GROG CHARGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 176, 24 January 1914, Page 2

SLY GROG CHARGES.

I'iH-ll'K MKTIIODS (W .DKTF.iTIOX. I IIKAVY FINES, j ! By Telegraph.—Press Association. : Auckland, Friday. •Stories (it p»lice methods in tlctuL-t----mg sellers of sly-grog were loUl in Conn yesterday, when William Palmer was charged with illegally selling whisky to Constable Maguirc on .Sunday, Janiiary 11, while Catherine Humes was charged with having, on the same dav, sold beer , to Constables Maguire, ami Healy. Pal- ( mer did not appear, and it was slated I .that he ha,l cleared out, and had not I'paid his last line of .L2U. Palmer for- I Jnicrly kept a frnil shop at -Jit. Kdcn j roail, lint, hceanse of a poliee raid, his landlord had given him notice, and lie I shifted to a fruit, shop in the. Creat Xorlh road. The two constables mentioned were "got tip" at the police station in old working clothes having their hands, clothes and boots plentifully nespaltcrcd with tar. They presented themselves on .Sunday morning' at the rear of Palmer's shop, and intimated thai they were doing the wood-paving work for the City Council, and also, particularly, that they were drv, witli that special thirst that can only be [ slaked with beer. ' /' Catherine Unrne.s answered the door. Palmer being out, and she supplied them with four small hollies of beer, for which they paid a shilling each. The ■ men drank the contents of two bottles r| on the spot and took two bottles away J - with them. They returned, still in the guise of iarred and thirsty workmen, j j in the afternoon, when rainier mot I j them and gave each a nip of whiskv in } j a cup, and charged them a shilling' for j j ' it. A search made of the premises re- I I ! vealcd i'l full bottles of beer and a } > bottle of whisky. S Catherine Karnes pleaded guiltv. and j Mr. Miilioiiey, on her behalf, said that I the woman bad been living with l'al- ~" mer, anil bad been selling the liquor under compulsion by the man. lie had left her practically destitute, and with a scveu-inonth-old baby. His Worship convicted Palmer, atnl lined him till and costs. '.''•„. woman was convicted and discharged. ■Mary Ann Hutchinson, keeper of a boarding-house in (!vev street, was charged with having ' illegallv sold whisky to C.mslaMe Maguire on .limitary 1 and with having sold beer lo him and Constable llealy on ,)anuarv I. The constables, in the garments' of i working men, and armed with two bottles of beer, Weill to Mrs. Hutchinson's boarding-hoiise, ami after having eonsinned their beer, deplored the fact, with I the result that .Mrs. Hutchinson ' sold them eaeh a nip of uhiskv for Is. On Sunday i -niug (hey said (hev would pay 111. for a hot He of whisky. .Mrs. Hutchinson intimated 'that. I.hev need not go.outside the house to get a' drink, and she produced a. big clear-glass hotHe containing a gallon of beer, which she said Ihcv could have for His The two constables pooled their spare cash and toiiml thai it amounted to <)< !M so the landlady let them have the beer for that sum. Immediately afterwards, by arrangement, Senior-sergt. Klllledge '■ami the scene, and bis search resulted in the finding in the bouse of a ' two-gallon jar of ' beer, a bottle of whisky, and 11 dozen empl y beer bottles. ' j Ilis Worship convicted defendant, and lined her l_-JO and costs.