A WHISKY RAID.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2455, 20 March 1909, Page 3

A WHISKY RAID.

SUPPOSED STILL FOUND. . (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 19. Premises in Adelaide road, occupied by Maurice John Collins and Thos. Matthews, ere raided by the police yesterday morning. Chief Detective Broberg as in charge, and was accompanied by Detectives Chssells, Lewis, and Andrews. Information was received several days ago, alleging that a whisky still was being conducted in the premises. The detective party forcibly entered the house, and arrested Collins and Matthews. It is also understood that a still was discovered, including a copper fitted with'a tin head, on to which was also fitted a worm coiling away into a large water trough. The trough contained some gallons of liquid, alleged to be undergoing the process of conversion into whisky. A fire was burning undei tho copper in a room. - A cask a.leged to contain illicit whisky was discoyeiod. Maurice John Collins and Thonifis Matthews were charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, the former with unlawfully making spirits, /and Matthews with being found on premises where illicit distillation was oemg carried on. They were remanded till Monday, hail being granted in two sureties of £SO each.