SLY- GROG SELLING IN THE SOUTH. A HEAVY PENALTY.
[by telegraph — press association.] Invercargill, This Day. At the Police Court to-day l^auny Hall, boavdinghouse keeper, was fined by Mr. Poynton, S.M., £100, in default two months' imprisonment, tor sly-grog selling. The evidence showed that prohibited persons had been in the habit of frequenting the place and obtaining liquor. Evidence in the case was obtained by a strange policeman going to the l>ouse and representing himself as a jockey, and afterwards as a deserter from a warship. He stayed in the house 12 days, and was supplied with liquor. Defendant had previously served a month in gaol for a similar offence.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1898, Page 6
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110SLY-GROG SELLING IN THE SOUTH. A HEAVY PENALTY. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1898, Page 6
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