CATCHING SLY-GROGGERS
USE OE STRATEGY JUSTIFIABLE. PBEBB ASSOCIATION DUNEDIN. May 15. The question of means to be adopted by the police in the detection of e.y grog-selling was referred to <- in th Supreme Court to-day. In summing u; in a case of alleged illicit traffic n liquor Mr Justice ,\Vilhams said it wa»pe; fectly . well recognised that shut g, had to be used, in oider.to catch peep.’at this business. It was perfectly leg: timate that strategy should be used, because offenders could not .be caught without it, nor could it_be expected that a person who acted as informer must necessarily be a very desirable individnal. In the present case the person to whom liqnor was alleged to have been sold had been actuated not by greed' for money, ■ bnt because he had a spite against the accused. That was an element which most be taken into consideration in deciding how far his evidence was credible.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8122, 16 May 1912, Page 1
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