Police Hod Never Heard Of It
NEW PLYMOUTH. Tug. (Sp.)— No chances of losing the case on the ground of lack of proof were taken by the police when Leslie lan Giles was seen to leave a dance at New Plymouth on June 4 and take a drink from a bottle.
After Giles had been spoken to by the police, said Senior-Sergeant A. D. Buchanan, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the bottle was found to contain creme de cacao, a liqueur unknown to the police. The bottle was therefore sent to the Dominion analyst at Wellington, and the liqueur was found to have a spirit content of 43.7 per cent. “There was no doubt about its potency,” said Senior-Sergeant Buchanan.
Told that the liqueur had not been returned by the analyst, Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., said it was an expensive liqueur, and Giles would be suitably punished if he paid 10/- costs and the analyst’s fee of £l.
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Northern Advocate, 2 August 1949, Page 4
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