SLY GROG AT PETONE

Northern Advocate, 22 August 1929, Page 6

SLY GROG AT PETONE

WITNESSES CONCOCT STORY.

TREATED AS HOSTILE. DEFENDANT FINED. (Per Press' Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Dap. In the Petone Court, Bertha Constance I’Ansoc, a married woman keeping a confectionery shop 1 , was charged with selling beer. A constable gave OVidertce that he found two inch, with a companion, in defendant’s shOp under suspicions circumstances'. , These three) iheii were 'Called to give eyiVlericej but the police characterised them ail as' hostile, as they declared the statements they haVl made to the police were untrue and, gave fresh evidence on entirely 'different IhtesV This was that one' of the men had* purchased a crate of a dozen bottles from a brewery opposite and the shop acted' as a depot for orders. The Stipendiary Magistrate said the witnesses had evidently come to emirt with a concocted story and most of the evidence was on a par , with 'that. He' fined defendant £^s.