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AN UNEXPECTED CLUE (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The s Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A case in the Magistrate's Court in which George Roseveare was fined for keeping a shop open illegally revealed a neat, piece of "sleuthing" on the part of Mr. R. T. Bailey, Inspector of yShops and Offices. , "I was going to the football on Saturday," said Mr. Bailey, "and two young chaps on bicycles wero ahead of me. I heard ono say, 'I am out of smokes,' ;.nd the other Teplied, 'I know where-to get some.' I followed them to tho defendant's shop in Brougham street. I have, suspected this shop of after-hour tobacco trading/but have never been able to catch it-going on." The defendant was fined £3 and costs. '
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 144, 20 June 1928, Page 14
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