ONE WAY OF GETTING RID OF WHISKY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10381, 26 June 1899, Page 5

ONE WAY OF GETTING RID OF WHISKY.

•|.;';f ; V, A few tfaye since we fold (eaye the "Dan* j^<s*Jin-Star") of & mason's,trowel thai bad found built into €he walle of the old gaol, and now we hear that thirty-efght fe,;' odd years ago, when this institution was 'being built, the workmen mu*t have had 'oii' r ,» weakness tor building articles into stonea and mortar., A young man, named Spencer Lamb, employed'by the con-" ju,r-: tractor,-Mr H. Calder, and he, having gone J.:' , "' nhaxes at ««ew Year's time -with his mates :-/;; ,in tbe purchasei of a quarter-caak of whisky \ : M from Iteynolds's bonded stores, did not j,' , I'fcnow what) to do with hi» proportion. He l>. '- «blvcd hie dilemma by giving some to hie V-, ;laudlord, who ha<l no qualms, and, putting Vf ike rest in a bottle, corked it up, and built ?j;; it the 14-inch. wallelof one of the cells. Jv;v And there it stayed until the other day, J.;»( for, on feading our account of the trowel, ' lie went to the contractor who' is demolish' 7/: JK»g the old gaol, and told him how, thirty- > ; , eight years ago, he 'had placed a bottle of • : . Whisky in such a place, and he located the ■i[" r «ite within a foot of where the bottle has Vi,., 'been found. "Unfortunately, it; had been laid lengthways, and -the spirit, having ,b A , ; , leaked out and-: evapomted, .there was ■ notuing left but a thickly, encrusted though iV9. ?*rf»tly sound and clean glass bottle.