ALLEGED BRIBERY.
MONEY GIVEN TO POLICE. ADELAIDE, June 16. During the sitting to-day—the seventeenth—of the Royal Commission investigating the allegations against certain police officials of accepting' bribes, a witness, Peter Johnson, informed Mr A. S. Blackburn (assisting tile Commission) that he had paid sums to a uniformed constable whose name he did not know. He made ( himselt a nuisance until witness didi so. Mr Blackburn: Did he then fade away ? Witness: Oh, no! Sometimes he used to hang around and “keep nit” for me, to keep other Johns away. (Laughter). Witness added that sometimes he made only £1 on a race, and tho police wanted £2. Witness, who had lively exchanges with counsel, refused to give tin names of the police lie bad bribed, ani the Commission allowed him to win them on paper.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 176, 26 June 1926, Page 11
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134ALLEGED BRIBERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 176, 26 June 1926, Page 11
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