STOLEN SPIRITS
THEFT OF A CASK OF WHISKY. (Per Press Association.) TIMA—u, July 12. At the Police Court on Saturday a young man, named Snurdlon, was charged with (stealing an octavo of whisky and a demijohn of water from the Crown Hotel, and four foreign seamen of the barque Ashmore were charged with receiving the same. Inspector Green stated that Spurdkm implicated another Timaru man, who had not been found. Spurdkm denied stealing himself, but admitted watching outside the hotel for the police. -He was convicted and fined 40s, and ordered to pay £4 for tie whisky consumed or wasted, in default one month’s imprisonment. The seamen, who said the barrel Avas given to them by two Englishmen, were convicted and fined ss. and ordered to. pay £2 each, in default 14 days’ imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2552, 13 July 1909, Page 4
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134STOLEN SPIRITS Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2552, 13 July 1909, Page 4
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