A HUMAN VULTURE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12093, 21 March 1925, Page 13

A HUMAN VULTURE

KING OF DOPE SELLERS. MAN’S BAD CHARACTER. SYDNEY, March 12. Charles Pasmore 150), who was fined £SO this week at the Central Police Court, was described by 'an expert police officer as the king of dope sellers and a criminal of the worst type. “He is a human vulture,” the policeman said. Evidence given in the court was to the effect that Pasmore was a sly grogseller on a large, scale, and that the police had beep on his trail for months bpfore they caught him in the act of dispensing liquor at big prices. Sergeant O’Brien, who handles sly grog traffickers, dope runners, and similar classes of criminals, was asked by the magistrate to tell the court something about Pasmore. He did. And this is what he said:— “Pasmore is a criminal of the very worst type. He knows no law, and has ruined more lives in Sydney than any other man with whom I hate ever come in contact. This man is always in the vicinity of King’s Cross, Darlinghurst, up to 3 ,a.m. every morning for the purpose of selling liquor and cocaino. He has been convicted again and again, and we have seized more thqn 1000 bottles of beer, wine, whisky, and other spirits, all of which he has claimed.” During a raid on Pasmore’s house, Sergeant O’Brien told the court, he found large quantities of cocaine. , “I do not sell cocaine,” Pasmore interposed. “I use it myself,, and have been taking it over twenty years,” “I "say definitely,” the sergeant replied, “that you are the king of dope sellers in Sydney and the king of sly groggers. I myself have seen you handing dope over to women.” Half a dozen men, he continued, had 'been convicted of selling sly grog and dope, and they were all agents of Pasmore. The magistrate fined Pasmore £SO, or six months’ imprisonment. The same afternoon Pasmore was arrested again on a charge of assault, a woman who had given evidence in the court on the sly grog charge being the complainant. When the case came on for nearing, however, she did not attend the court to give evidence, and the case was dismissed-.—(Christchurch “Star.”)