DETECTIVE'S METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 16

DETECTIVE'S METHODS.

WRONGFUL ARREST ALLEGED. PETITION TO PARLIAMENT. SEQUEL TO HAMILTON" CHARGE. (Br Ti'lf^raph.—rarihirnentary Reporter.) ■ WELLINGTON, Tuesday, i A claim for C~>QQ compensation from > ihrt Department of Justice for alleged j aeciiriuiun, nrrost, and detention i> made by Alfred Victor Voyce, linotype operaiur, of OS, Featherston Street, Pnlmerston North, in a petition ]i!v.-ent.>.l to tin; House l>y Mr. J. A. I Xa-li. j The petitioner formerly resided a; j Hamilton. He sets out that on June -2ii. ! 1f26, Constable Kirby and Detective i Cnlloty called at hi= home, and the dotee- ; tive questioned him regarding his move- | nients on the previous day. The detec- : tive asked him to come to the police i station, where petitioner made a statement denying that he was in Wellington ! Street on the previous day when I of live years old had been taken away by a man on a bicycle and indecently assaulted. Petitioner described his movements in detail, and was later taken to the station yard and placed in line with seven other men. Detective Culloty brought out a little girl, telling her to put her hand on the man who took her away. She. placed her hand on petitioner. | George Gilby, a gardener, who had been working in the vicinity of the place where the alleged assault took place, and who had seen a man pass on a bicycle. was brought into the yard, but said the man was not there. Detective Culloty charged petitioner with the offence, | which he denied, and he was locked up. | On Ancntst 31 the errand jurv returned -no bill." ""I contend." says petitioner, "that if Detective Culloty had carried out his duties in an efficient manner he would liave made full inquiries as to my movements when suspicion fell on me, and that had he been more exact in his methods of investigation I should not have been arrested for the offence. The results of this wrongful charge against me have been that I lost eleven weeks' wages at £0 3/ a week, and my home had to be sold up to meet expenses. My solicitor's fees amounted to £30 10/. Apart from this, I was wrongfully detained in eiistody for 17 days, which in itself is a stain on an innocent man's character. The methods upon which Detective Culloty works are distinctly in opposition to the circular issued recently by the Commissioner of Police."