SLY-GROGGERIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 6

SLY-GROGGERIES.

A fConsiableiin Trouble.

> IK 3s asserted by. rthe. /authorities! rfeha't there, are no fewer ifcteam itbirty-! .-seven 'houses dii. and ai!atHid iAshfour-i "(ton where JiKjuor may ;be -/b'ought on.i itthe sly. .There foawe tosn ;any, -.quan-l vfcity of convictions thene, ;as well as | •cases m which rbhe<ev>idenee,ididn't &U ; <ilfcogether warrant it:; itih&ipo'lioe "gen-j 'erally make sure <of*h<eir marks .andi Ifceep a fairly sMtp, look' •out. loi ; preaches, of the Acty 'But *bheyj axe I frequently ididdled, many/ a per- i , son m -i-hat cdistf ict is <ws^mg a, small • ;'f ortuno out of liis ifeliow-*mßn's illicit > /•itlrirst. The police 'toad to resort to. :.ithe practice of eitfoer spaying inform-.] Hers or ■statioajMiig plaSn clothes con- i > stabl-es ;there, young ieHaws^lto have, j ■^only just joined, aod-who are: drafted ! ■*lown from WellinigitiaQ.] T>Jie peelelrs ] /have /been doing all ;the. say ever since | was icairriadi .tout jjidw- ]t>he , tsick -and tired sl^grogigsis are iurin- ; "dug rou-nidi and Cansfeubie -ißilly t Cril-i ■lott nowfinids MmseK m vfhe <uincom- j ■Portable iposition of ihasfijog. €o stand ?abis filial for baviai/g ooiQaiStfed! iPaTIK i;ipt>rjurya, wrhlie ibacfc" w3ffin^inge^'iV.vd'eneein a case an^McS a shopkeeperEarned .Sufheriiaind was. Hdag defendantr wiio. was fined. SiiiHaaaand as Charging 'Gillott wltli.jperjHiy--' 'it is jno.t a police easel,> lbu<b ifihe C&rown will Sia*« to take ifcmp aaudseeit, -QffiOfUgi^ jit appears iHiat inrhen Soflieaaafflid was CHAHGBD WITH iSEEiil^Ci 511'icaily,- 2te pieaidedi mo*.iguiMly/.«b"ufc2rf^ Ster he iieaid Gonsi^jle.fHnott's.evi^ (danee 1 foe changed front; at tie '. in-^ staince of Lawyer Raymond,;, a«d' >ipleafled ©nalty^ the result being' tfibat ■}ie ? was mulct m a tenner aiud costs.;' €t i 9 now alleged I&at . while'tba •bpb.Siyi was^acting asaspy^ he attended 1 ; '•Fbhe Show at AsMjurtoniand^apted as ifcaxman,. or attenidaaiir^ or soxEetMcg, I when oneßrooker was selßn® grog j-allegaUy. Tshete was.a ; «go6d supplyj; •on hand that day/ and 'Gillott,- it isv .alleged, took the cash.- .When^ he f iwas giving evidence against Sutheraand, though, he absolutely; dended; havlin-j done anyt/hing. t)f .the; ikinid -^ ; - i tyziAiiiv , that he never ; had!-ans;*liquor fa bis possession "ttiat moirfch'.' • ;A batch pf witnesses .were •called -to ■* .'tear out the statement set tout m the includaog Sanaiuel lioul- ► sjton, Isaac Knox, William^McKee an* Joseph Madden. They all. swore that bn show day they wont akrttg to Brooker's hut,- an'd'were supplied 'njrtth lush by Oonstabre^G-illott /(they; /didn't know he was a copper then) , ; . "for which they paid., Some of .them Jiad more than a couple of-Jteflpings., : i Why Sutherland should-! tiaye pleaded guilty when his case was heard, feeing that he. now avers- lie wasn't 'guilty, is curious. He avers' that "the", .police told a pack of : lies,- and that ( fte pleaded guilty, on- being ; told' that .those who did so "would get^ off lighter. , '■' y l ■ ■■-';■:■ ■■ Uawyer Cassi'dV, asked; '.Tb/omas and Upton* J.P.s, to disQtrarge. 4 acciisßd; as the case was*only, 'brought '■■> out of--..spite , „ IN REVENGE 'FOR' PREVIOUS •--' PROSECUTIONS^ fTiie prosecution "wanted" to>.put oil-,lo-tt away for sorfle time so as to deter other you-ag constables from going to Ash'bur%m and ttoiDg their duty. TheßencM, 'howewGir, declined $o do so, sending. Gillotityup-for trial and allowing light bail. .There was a .second information: agaiust him for .wilfully and corruptly committing ■perjury m a case m w^ch 'Julia HyJatliJ Nffas coiicernedv brat this, was ./withdraw. , This wri-17'er now- understands tha^ a charge 'of a like nature 55? to be laid- ag-afla-ist shopkeeper Sutherland;; to^OTno^on next - ..week. •Tit foKtartv .r