WHISKY AT THE CLUTHA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1843, 19 November 1897, Page 3

WHISKY AT THE CLUTHA.

[From the Dunedin Star.] BALCLUTHA, November 12. Before Mr Hawkins, S.M., to-day, Margaret Heney was charged with sly grogselling on the 2nd inst. Inspector Pardy prosecuted, and Mr D. D. Macdonald and Mr Donald Reid appeared for the defendant. The evidence showed that James Duncan went with a bottle and 2s to Heney’s. He went in by the side door, and the next thing Constables Keaney and Griffith saw of Duncan was his coming round the corner of the house apparently from the front door, Duncan’s evidence was that he saw neither Mr nor Mrs Heney, but met in the passage Liston (the stablekeeper), who asked him what he wanted, and on being told took him out to the stable to his own room and gave him some whisky out of a bottle of his own, Duncan did not pay for it. He had not been asked for the 2s since, and had it yet. Duncan returned to his own house with the whisky, and there he and a man named Angus and Constable Keaney partook of it. Ultimately Inspector Pardy stated that he could not hope to succeed with the case and would proceed no further, and the charge was dismissed. The charge against John Heney was withdrawn, and a second charge against Margaret Heney was adjourned till the 25th inst. at the request of Inspector Pardy, as one of his witnesses had not attended.