"TERRORS OF HELL"

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 75, 28 March 1924, Page 5

"TERRORS OF HELL"

! • , ' METHYLATED SPIRITS ADDICTS I : XOVEL POLICE CURE. 'I MF.I.BOURNE. "March 22. i Melbourne poli.e have discovered a way to stop the vice of drinking iuetliylated spirits". This story was tol.i by Plain-clothes Constable Yene.-s to Mr. Kosen, J. P., Jt the Fitzroy Court to-day. "We have done our Wc-t." m> id tho constable, in his evidence, "to .hock that, <ad phase of night life. WV resorted to a novel ami effective way of impressing the poor victims. When w.came across: methylated spirit drinkeri who were not too far pone tv learn our * lesson, we split their buttles on the r asphalt, and whin a stream uf 10 or IJ i feet tlowed alon-j we put a to one 1 end. Then a weird trailing display f of coloured lire put tin- terror? of hell 1 into them. li made them realise the - fiery nature of (he >|iirii~ which tli-y were- introdiieilli: to tlieir inte-tines."' Mr. llosi-n: That i< si pmd rnl-.l lecture. Jt is far bettor in correct people by f»entli! mesui* limn t" u-i , mean; which niiuht provoke ri'soiilmcnl and further develop jutlu-r irimijml i instincts.