LIQUOR STOLEN
THREE MEN FOUND GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, February 9. A verdict that the accused were guilty of the theft of 109 bottles of beer, seventeen bottles of whisky, and one of gin, the property of the Government, was returned at the conclusion of the trial of Jim Braithwaite, aged thirty, a mill worker, George Thomas White, aged thirty-four, a bushman. and Alva Vernon McMinn, aged twenty-eight, a labourer, before Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Hamilton. On further charges of breaking into the police cells at Taumarunul where the liquor was stored, and of receiving stolen liquor, the accused were found not guilty. The prisoners were remanded for sentence.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 8
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114LIQUOR STOLEN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 8
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