OFFERED A LITTLE GRAFT TO CONSTABLE
CHRISTCHURCH MAX FIXED,
CAUGHT GETTING LIQUOR
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Pleas of guilty were entered by Robert Barter in the Magistrate’s Court to-day that being a prohibited person he procured liquor from two hotels and that he attempted to bribe a constable. The police evidence w'as that Barter, when caught in the hotel by a constable, offered the constable money. In a statement to the police, Barter said he offered the constable money because he had heard of other men having done it. He was fined £5 for attempted bribery, and on two charges of procuring liquor while prohibited, was fined £3 and £l.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 7
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