UNLAWFUL SALE OF LIQUOR

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 271, 21 May 1907, Page 3

UNLAWFUL SALE OF LIQUOR

[PER PHEB3 ASSOOIATION.] Invercargill, May 20. The adjourned case against Mar§aret McAuliffe, proprietress ot the hamrock BoardrnXuse charged with unlawfully selling, liquor on April 1, was begun this afternoon, and concluded to-night. Mr Solomon, of Dunedin, appeared for the Department. Evidence was given by two witr nesses (Holman and Lawson), who previously absconded and were brought back under arrest, as to the sale of whisky to them and another person on the date stated. Under cross-examination the witnesses stated that while they were in the cells awaiting th* hearing of another charge preferred against them they told the police of the sale of liquor to them on April l,,and were asked by the police to visit the Shamrock Boardinghoulse and invite the accused to sell them liquor again. They accordingly visited the house, but could only purchase soft drinks. Two other witnesses and the accused denied the sale. The defendant admitted that she had been convicted in August, 1905, of the unlawful sale of liquor, but said she was not guilty. Decision was reserved.