PROSECUTION THAT FAILED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 8

PROSECUTION THAT FAILED

ALLEGED SLY GROG-SELLING. EVIDENCE CANNOT SUPPORT THE CHARGE. Mr AV. G. Riddell, S.M., was engaged tho beat part of yesterday hearing a somewhat unusual sly grog-selling case, in which the evidence tendered, was as contradictory' as it could be. A sailorraan swore that he had been in the defendant’s house, and there was drugged, while several witnesses on the 'other" side denied that they had ever seen the ’sailor, although they were in the house at the time of the alleged occurrence. Mrs Alary Jane Barrie was charged with having sold beer to a man named Michael Flanagan, she having no license to do so. Defendant pleaded not guilty, but admitted a previous conviction on a similar charge. SubInspector Norwood appeared for the prosecution and Air Dix for the ■defendant. The evidence for thie Crown went to show that the accused lived with her husband and kept a boardinghouse in 'PI pi tea street. A man named Michael Flanagan, who described himself as a, sailor ."said he met a-man on. Sunday last outside the Government Buildings who offered ,to take him ' to a house where he could obtain drink. This man conducted him to No. 13,; Pipitea street, where the prosecuting witness saw the defendants, hut this man, whose name was not given, remained