SELLING LIQUOR WITHOUT A LICENSE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. ) CHRISTCHUKCH, March 16. At the Magistrate's Court, Ella Regan, a coloured woman with three or four previous convictions, was 1 convicted of selling liquor without a license and sentenced to six months' hard labour. Herbert Anderson, who occupiejd the same house as Ella Regan, was fined £SO on a similar charge. The Magistrate, in giving judgment, said "The fewer words I use the better, for the case is a most disgusting one to every decent person. lam going to break up what I consider the black spot of the city." In regard to the characters of the witnesses and the methods adopted by them, His Worship said he would not speak of that as a part of the matter at all. It seemed that it was no'doubt necessary for the police to sometimes employ men of this class, and they must therefore, be regardad as a necessary evil in cases of this sort. ' Sub-Inspecf.or McGrath, after the case had been heard, told a reporter that the police knew nothing of tactics adopted by witnesses, and would not have countenanced their action had they known of it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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194SELLING LIQUOR WITHOUT A LICENSE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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