SECRET REVEALED
(BI TELEGRAPH.— PRBSS ASSOCIATION.)
M.ASTERTON, 23rd October.
In tho Magistrate's Court to-day, Alexander Gay, a boardtnghouso proprietor, was fined £25 for keeping liquor for sale in a no-license area. Arthur Barnes, a lodger in the house, was fined a similar iunount on a charge of selling liquor. Witnesses for the prosecution deposed that the police after thoroughly searching Gay's house discovered that the two decorative mouldings undo rthe mantelshelf in a bedroom w-ero loose, and by (he insertion of a hatpin in a small hole a spring wns released and tho moulding sprung out, disclosing a largo cavity.' Jn one of these was secreted six bottles of whisky.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 11
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110SECRET REVEALED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 11
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