ALLEGED SMUGGLING
MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED TOBACCO TAKEN FROM CAR (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 21. Following their arrest in a car parked on the outskirts of the Conway Bridge railway camp, Ramon Brugnon Acourt, aged 28, a salesman, and Elizabeth Lilian Campbell, alias Gilbert, aged 48, a domestic servant, both of Nelson, appeared i: court charged with smuggling 261 b of manufactured tobacco, and with being knowingly concerned in dealing with manufactured tobacco with intent to defraud the Customs of duties. The accused were remanded to November 27. Each was allowel bail in the sum of £250, with two sureties each of £ 200. They are to report daily to the police, who are to retain custody of the accused's car. The police said the accused attempted to prevent a constable from searching the car. A quantity of cigarette and pipe tobacco, much of it in tins, was found in the car.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23045, 23 November 1936, Page 7
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