A CASE OF WRONGFUL ARREST.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13102, 29 April 1908, Page 3

A CASE OF WRONGFUL ARREST.

An unusual oase of -w-rongful arrest oramo ilMsforo H. W. Bisbop, S.M., an the ilogist/rajfce's Court yeeterday, Wnllia-ra Kiildef, a 3X>uug (man, beinig cha<rged with stealing, a canary ?.<n a cage, the property of Cp. . Chief tbeteotiro ChrystaH applied to hare'thefiiifertrfait'Kra "wfthdravrn, etaiinj: that the detecti-vo who had. arrested Nildor 3iad not made saßßoiani' ©nquirice at iihe cod it hod been subsequently ascertained that the young man had pa.id Ss -for the bird. TOIO Magistrate remarked on tih» MriouencEs of interfering -with a man Dxcapt on substantial evidence. Winen there wns onjy circnmstantial evidence it vrae f«r better for the police' to t h'roTv the onus <yf the prosecution an the man who had laid the information. Such instances as the present one would lead to very serious trouble. OIM-e-f t Detective Ohrystall .further stated t-nero was no doubt of tfoe man's innooenoo. The enquiries made had proved this beyond doubt. The Defend a.nt: If the detective had stopped to enquire I -would never have been a-rrested. I heivd brough* irittiesees to dear my character. I thank Mr Ghry&tall for his remarks. The Magistjwfce : Tho case ie dismissed.