SERIOUS INDICTMENT.
POLICE METHODS IN SYDNEY.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
At the sitting yesterday of the Royal Commission, which had hitherto inquired into illegal betting operations and which later was reopened in order to reconsider the case of Constable M. B. Miller, counsel for Miller (J. TV. Shand, K.C.) laid a charge against Police Commissioner Mackay of unjust and unfair treatment of Miller.
Mr Shand claimed that Mackay, “under a false assumption of fairness,” had attempted to discredit Miller, and had maliciously presented to the Premier, the cause of Miller’s absence in the country in 1936 which Mr Shand ■concluded was .genuinely due to illhealth.
Mr, Shand further submitted that the Police Commissioner, approved of the obviously baseless charges and biased reports of senior police officers, relating to Miller’s activities in connection with the crusade against stairt-ing-price bettors. , The inquiry) was adjourned to a date to be fixed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 172, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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