Eureka Reporter | 1906-07-27 | Page 4 | Monkeys Were Booze Experts

BOOZE figure as witnesses in a big lon don liquor case experiences ot animals london there is a distinctly hu is side to the evidence in the great whisky case at the sessions where two north london 11 are appealing against police court convictions for unlawfully sell ing scotch and irish whisky which was not of the nature substance and ity demanded mr hunter a fellow of the institute at chemists and a public analyst caused much laughter by his recital ol 01 the ot two monkeys I 1 experimented on them with aico hoi he said in order to ascertain he effects of pot and pa ent belll one was filled with malt and he got peacefully and beautifully tight and behaved just like a perfect gentle man after a little while under the in fluence of this fine whisky he began to show signs of pulling round and I 1 gave him some tea which he took very pleasantly and behaved quite i ell there were no after effects and ahr monkey was happy the other monkey when given some of the patent still whisky go drunk and went mad he went flying about the place and ultimately col lapsed so that the pot still whisky made one benevolently drunk and the other mad drunks asked mr bousfield who u for the Is lington borough connit which instituted the eions yes mr hunter replied I 1 changed the experiment three weeks afterwards and the monkey which had been peacefully tight on malt got sud denly uproarious with the patent still spirit