THE REEFTON ILLICIT STILL CASE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 35, 10 February 1899, Page 3

THE REEFTON ILLICIT STILL CASE.

ANOTHER FINE. [United Press Association ] REEFTON, February a. The Co art was crowded all day at the hearing of two charge* against John Mitchell of having an interest in illicit still* on October 14th snd January 2oth respectively. Mr McDowell, Collector of Customs at Greymouth, swore that Mitchell waa an informer by letter in an il - licit still case, for which one Wieberlitz •got six months in gaol, and aUo in con-' neetion with the discovery of a second ;StiC«s January 20th, tor which an old ;jna,n aimed jenmns was sentenced to pay £100, or to eight months' imprisonment. ■Jackson, who received a similar sentence ifor the last case, swore that Wieberlit/, Mitchell, and himzelf were partners, and tthat he and Mitcheii deliberately entrap ; ped Wieberlit2, and divided the £50 reoeirod between them ; also that they engaged Jennens. and then put the police •v»2uni. Wieberlitz gavo corroborative c% -ideo<y ag to the first partnerbhip, and ggjd there was an understanding that if one go .I 1 ' nt( ? i? 10 ' & c <J 'b er^ were t° K° on making vlwakey and thirethe profits with him when k° came out - Mitchell, in the box, denied ."& Iho "Negations, but Mr Stratford, B M., fin« d him • £IOO - or monthn, and ilJ"' °* twelve monthE, re spectively. The ec" I*"*1 *"* Ka ' gn-etf-d with applause. It ie u *aac&ooA. that fur ther developments are ez," > * cte "'