THEFT OF LIQUOR FROM GOVERNMENT
THREE MEN FOUND GUILTY AT HAMILTON
{PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON, February 9. A verdict that the accused were guilty of the , theft of 109 bottles of beer, 17 bottles of whisky, and one of gin’, the property of the Government, was returned at the conclusion of the trial of Jim Braithwaite, aged 30, a mill worker. George Thomas White, aged 34, a bushman, and Alva Vernon McMinn, aged 28, a labourer, before Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Hamilton. , ■ , . . . On further charges, of breaking into the police cells at Taumarunui. where the liquor Was stored, the accused were found not guilty. The prisoners were remanded for sentence.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22941, 10 February 1940, Page 18
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