THEFT OF LIQUOR
THREE MEN CONVICTED
CB}' Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, This Day,
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. On further charges of breaking into the police cells at Taumarunui, where the liquor was stored, and of receiving the stolen liquor, the accused were found not guilty.
The prisoners were remanded for sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 9
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