SLY GROG.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13421, 7 July 1911, Page 2

SLY GROG.

INTERESTING CASES AT CORE. Heavy Fines Inflicted. (Per United Press Association). GORE, July 6. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr. Young, S.M., A. Sharp, a young man employed as a driver of a grocer’s delivery van, was charged with having sold six bottels of whisky. Defendant pleaded guilty. Inspector O’Donovan briefly related the facts, which showed that accused bought a case of whisky at 4s. 7d. a bottle and sold six bottles at ss. (id. each. A fine of £25 and costs £1 ss. was imposed. Charles Byron, senr., was charged on two informations with illegally selling and keeping liquor for sale at Gore. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The Inspector said defendant occupied a shop in Main Street. The alleged offences were committed in a place apart From the dwelling where the Byron family resided. Charles Whitelaw (Mossburu) said he visited Gore in April and during his stay there he had a wages order for £l3 and about £1 6s. in cash. He went to Byron’s house and asked if lie “could get anything.” Whisky was supplied and; he drank and paid defendant, who also participated. Witness got the worse for liquor and went to sleep m ' he house and subsequently figured in the Police Court for drunkenness. He then discovered that all the money ho had wa» some ss. 6d. or ss. 7d. The order had disappeared. Ho went back to defendant’s place and the document was returned to him bv Byron. Constable Phillips said when the nolice made an unexpected call at Byron’s house Byron was in the act of making a hurried exit with a keg half full of beer. Byron said Whitelaw did not get the whiskv there. He received no money from him, nor did he sleep on the premises. Defendant was fined £SO and costs ss. on the first charge and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on the other.