WALKED INTO TRAP
CASE OF WHISKY FOR £SO (Special) WELLINGTON. July 12. After making arrangements with a serviceman in a restaurant for the purchase of a case of whisky, Domonic Green, seaman, and John Clifford Columbus, hotel worker and seaman, 24, delivered the whisky to a room in a private hotel.
But the arrangements for purchase and delivery were part of a police trap, and when Green accepted £SO from the serviceman a sergeant of police walked in. Later, in the Magistrate’s Court,, Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., found that Green , was the main culprit, and sentenced him to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. Columbus was fined £lO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25276, 13 July 1943, Page 5
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