POLICE TRAP.
CRITICISM OF METHODS. [TEE PEESa SpaeUl Servle*.] AUCKLAND, February 7. An allegation that the police had improperly made use of a small boy as an agent provocateur was made by counsel in the Supreme Court, when alternative charges of indecently assaulting a boy of eleven, and of attempting the same offence, were preferred against William Gerald Cain. Evidence for the prosecution was that after the boy had reported to his
father that ho hod had with a man in the park, !j|jj&|»H^H tho father and two watch. The boy was inrarWWg|EMWl| go near the man nnhwa w to him, and as the result pened charges were laid. t-iaJHSfeflll Counsel, addressing tM downed tho conduct °' tu tho father in using th» HMHH trap for tho accused, tha jury, if it disapproved PjSwmSn police and the father bad jngfflH press that disapproval by * "°Mr Justice Stringer. of tho police and the collateral matter, an ; d^inß|jjMj
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 8 February 1927, Page 4
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