ONCE TOO OFTEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 11

ONCE TOO OFTEN.

-CTLRTNG A WHISKY CASK. ißy Telegraph.—Press Association.) INYERCABGILL. this day. Arthur B. Cook was charged at the Police Court yestordav. with the theft °f 10 gallons of whisky. valued at £14, the property of the Invercaraill Corporatitra. The accused pleaded _uilty to the offence, which was committed on January 27. j , Mr. Eustace Russell, who appeared for the accused, said that on the day pre- j rions to the one on which the offence i was eo_rmitted both t-he accused and another man had been unloading casks of from the steamer Invereargill. on & c jetty, and then carrying them to the store. On the day of the information they purchased -.1 keg of beer from °ne of the depots, and having consumed tie contents, proceeded to the jetty with we empty keg and an augur. They got "ader the wharf, and the other man jk-ced the aujpr between two flooring M-rds. bored a hole throush one of the and let the whisky run into the keg. 'When it was filled they stopped up the h-olc. proceeded home, some of the liquor, and bottled l ac ren_Hrd<-r. By this time they were W-aderaWy intoxicated, and made a r?ond visit to the icttv for more whisky. VVhile getting the - return " they had allowed a quantity of the contents to ""l mi the ground beneath, and this tew ted in the theft beinjr detected. He "Ked for probation. Sis Worship conld not see his way to P a nt probation, and sentenced Cook to jee months' iniprisonme-.it. He _I°wed * L he other man's case to stand <rrer '""A a future date.