SLY-GROC SELLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 24, 13 September 1911, Page 7

SLY-GROC SELLING.

A BROKEN'II ILL CASE. WHEN A WOULD LIE. Lucy Clarke ivas found guilty of slygrog soiling at Broken Hill The evidence showed that on August 17, Police-constable Petit! was supplied by defendant with whisky and beer. The constable admitted that he told defendant taut he was working at Umberumberka. In course bh crossexamination the constable said:; ‘‘l told iier 1 had to get,to Umberumberka. That was a lie. I did'not toll these lies in order r to get promotion in the service. I told them from instructions received. 1 was l therb as a probationary constable. I did not lie manfully in order to become a, permanent member of the force. My con-,, science allows me to distinguish between a lie inside and outside the Court. It wajunpt .for my benefit I lied. I tdieycd instructions. , I, would not. tell a lie in Court, because it v.ould be perjury.” • The defence was that the' constable' complained that he was ill, and that two men who were in the house at the time, having' called in passing, and who had several bottles of beer and whisky, supplied the constable with beer, for which no money was paid. Defendant was fined £3O, with 7s cost,s, in default three months’ gaol. Counsel for defence asked for two montns’ time to pay. The S.M.: 1 would have been quite ready to grant the application had defendant told the trutn. 1 don’t want to send her to gaol, but I am satisfied she has perjured herself. I will grant the application on a surety of £3O being forthcoming. • ;i :