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THE CHINA MẠIL, JANUARY 30, 1939

MAN WITH SUITCASE" RAN STILLS IN FLAT: FRIENDS THOUGHT HE WAS A P.C.

Scotland Yard officers crossed,suitcases up and down the stairs, Aristotle-road, Clapham, S.W., and but never did we dream that they touched the arm of the Man with contained bottles of spirits that he the Suitcase.

Iwas making at the flat.. They had watched one house in "Sometimes a woman, wheeling that road for many hours, peeringja pram with two children in it, through the snow storm at a light used to call at the flat and take up in a five-roomed flat.

parcels. Now I think back, we The light disappeared just before often used to smell alcohol on the the Man with the Suitcase walked flat stairs, but concluded, that out.

somebody must have dropped a At the South-Western Police bottle or something.". Court the Man with the Suitcase-

The caretaker of the flats said: Ernest Thomas Riley, 56-year-old "The police watched the flat from decorator, of Kepler-road, Clapham an empty one close by, and we was fined a total of £1,230, with were warned not to mention their an alternative of six months' im-presence to anybody. When they prisonment.

entered the flat it was completely bare of furniture.” “

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“REDECORATION”

Mr. B. M. Stephenson, for the Customs and Excise, said that He had converted the 5-round when he was

stopped, 1 13 bottles flat into one of the biggest illicit of spirits were found inside the still depots that have been dis-suitcase.

covered in London for some time. When the flat was searched,

Neighbours had noticed

some four stills, constructed from small strangers in an empty flat on the dustbins and a kettle, were found. opposite side of the road. They There was a large quantity of were warned not to mention this spirits in the flat, some of it in to the Man with the Suitcase - bottles capped with gold foil. the charming man whom they had In a statement made to the Cus- taken to be a policeman himself, toms, Riley was alleged to have Six weeks ago people. living in said that he had been making the Aristotle-road welcomed him as a spirit for six weeks. He made it, new neighbour. He paid £1 78 6d, from sugar, raisins, potatoes, week for the flat, and told other malted barley, and yeast, and. tenants in the block that he was flavoured the gin with essences. spending a lot of money on having

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the whole place redecorated.

WITH AN EXPERT

A woman who was a neighbour "Not only is the Revenue de- told me last night: "He was a frauded," added Mr. Stephenson, very charming man and certainly "but the health of people who had the manner of a police officer. drink the stuff is endangered be- He told me that he had been cause the whisky is very raw and allowed to rent the flat a little vicious.” cheaper than most of the other Riley said. “The tenants because he had agreed to has magnified my offence and made redecorate it himself.

it out that I was running a large concern.

"He explained that there might be a noise white the place was. being decorated, and said that he himself might be working during the night, as his business hours were somewhat irregulär.

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prosecution

"As a matter of fact, if I had attended a brewers' exhibition and seen the huge equipment which is necessary for making spirits, I would have had a different point of view, and yet they point to me: with my sixpenny-halfpenny dust- bins, which are more suitable for a Laurel and Hardy film.

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"He introduced us to a man we always called him the Thin

"The Customs officials' opinion Man whom he said was the de-about my spirits when they tasted corator, and would be in and out them was that they were diabolical of the place during the day.

and that ho sane person would "I have often seen him carrying have called it whisky or gin.

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"My efforts at manufacture were a complete failure. I should have put labels on the bottles that they were Whiskine' or 'Gintine" in: much the same way as they make a substitute drink for port' wine- known as 'Red Bibby.":"

Excise authorities believe that there is a large quantity of illicit liquor reaching the market. The loss to the Revenue is put at thousands of pounds a year, and they are satisfied that Riley is not the only man in London making homemade spirits. Another arrest by Flying Squad officers is said to be likely.

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