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Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 30

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IXVEKCARGILL, May I. On Monday, after a lengthy inquiry, L. >Snng c ter and Davd Hawthorn, were rommitteti for fiial for fifpa'incr five f'o7«n beer from tho storehouse of an In\-ereargill hotel. Wm. Sangsier or.d Acam Mayer pleaded " (iiiiltv " en the 'amp charge, and were remanded to DunedJn for sentence. Tl.ey jjivp cv. denes that they had been drinkinghard all day, and that, going too late to get liquor at the hotel, they broke into the "toro arvl carried the- beer to the house of L Sangster, a few chains away. Both depored that L. Rangstor and Hawthorn, v. ho arc old men, were in bed. and did i.ot know that the liquor was brong-ht to th& house till the police arrived to search. Hawthorn had come to tho house to lodge only that nijrht. With the exception of Mi-ypr, who \\a> committwl for a petty cfence «ome year" ago. all the accused had! no prnvi^Tis records affecting their henes'y. and the two young Miove said that had! th-ev not boon drunk they would not hay& <-tolf>n the beer. They had purchased a. lance quantity at the same hotel that night, and from another hou.se took several flasks of spirit.? while the barn-aid was absent. The S.M paid the rase was weak as regards fie theft against the committed men, bufc they v. ill liavo to answer a charge of rpceiviug knowing t' c beer to have been stolen.

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