A PROHIBITION DISTRICT.
ALLEGED /SLY, GROG-SELLING.
INFORMERS MOBBED.
[BY TET/F.ORAPTr.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]
Askbttrtov z Saturday.
The Magistrate's Court heard evidence in two cases of: alleged sly grog-selling to*-day and seven yesterday. The majority of the cases were brought on the information of Messrs. Hall find Withey, who had evidently been in the employ of the police, obtaining evidence for fully a month previous to the recent raid. There are four cases-still:to be heard, and meantime decisions are reserved. The Court sits again on Thursday.
Asiiir:rtox, Suu'lay.
After the adjournment of the sly grogselling cases on Saturday, a, large crowd waited for two hours outside the courthouse for the informers to come out. The police got the informers out a back way, and drove them to Ghertsey, 12 miles distant, to board the express for Christchurch. This becoming known, from 40 to 50 men boarded the train at• -Ashburton for Chertsey, intending to catch the informers there, but the police outwitted the crowd and got the informers, Hall, Wilhcy, and Henderson, into the guard's van, which the mob surrounded, hooting and groaning. Oue window of the van was smashed with a stick or stone, Prosecutions are expected to follow. . ' ' '.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12550, 18 April 1904, Page 5
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197A PROHIBITION DISTRICT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12550, 18 April 1904, Page 5
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