A SENTENCE REVISED.
» [Per Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, December 21. When Mrs Crossey, who was yesterday found guilty of sly-grog; selling, was brought up at the Police Court to-day she mado another appeal for consideration, urging that she had been •dragged into the sly-grog business by Crossey, and that she did not want to come up to Auckland from Wellington at all, but was forced to do bo by her husband. She' further explained that since she was thirteen years old she had been mixed up in the liquor business one way and another, and now "hated the sight of it. It's a curse!" His Woreliip sugfeated that her hatred of it had led er during the progress of the present case to put a good deal of it "out of sight,'' as she had shown the eflFecta of liquor on several occasions in Court. He ultimately decided, in response to the prisoner's appeal to be spared the sha.me of prison, to convict and order her to come up for sentence when | called upon.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9116, 23 December 1907, Page 1
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173A SENTENCE REVISED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9116, 23 December 1907, Page 1
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