A DETECTIVE IN PARLIAMENT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 33, 26 November 1912, Page 7

A DETECTIVE IN PARLIAMENT.

Ihe presence in the lobbies of the Legislative Assembly during the past few days of a stranger, who looked suspiciously like a member of the police force, has led up to some surmise which yesterday the Speaker took the opportunity of clearing up (stated the 'Daily Telegraph' of November 14). Mr "Willis, when questioned on the subject, said that the stranger in question was Mr Bradley, a senior detective, an officer of the police service. "He is," Mr Willis added, "a gentleT n xv W0 of the highest traditions of the Diplomatic Service of England." &

. The Speaker proceeded to explain, "J characteristic fashion, the reason for Air Bradley's presence within the precincts of Parliament.

Seeing that I am the Speaker of the Assembly in the greatest State of the Union," he said, "it is not to be wondered at that there is respect for my office in high places. I have been subjected to insult in public thoroughfares: I have been threatened in most scoundrelly language by well-known and unknown persons by letter. I am sure citizens will, therefore, be relieved to know that the Inspector-General of police has in his own sound judgment detailed an attache of Mr Bradley's discretion to carry out official instructions."