CLIFF TRAGEDY
SEQUEL TO DRINKING.
(Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, December 6
In the Magistrate’s Court, Grace Ann Moore, licensee of the Heathcote Arms Hotel, and Joseph Lewis Gestro, barman at the hotel, each faced three charges of having supplied liquor to persons under 21 years of age. Sub. Inspector Fitzpatrick said that after getting the drinks, the youths set. out over the Sumner Cliffs for Taylor’s Mistake. Three of them arrived there, but the fourth, William James Mowbray did not, his body being found at the bottom of the cliff. The licensee was fined £6, with costs, and the charges against the barman were dismissed.
The Magistrate said that the matter was made more , disastrous by the death of Mowbray, whose death was due to the amount of liquor he had obtained at the hotel, or elsewhere.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 2
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