DETECTIVE FAERELL.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 322, 17 January 1879, Page 2

DETECTIVE FAERELL.

TO TBB EDITOR OF THB EVENING POST. Sir — It is only within the lost few days that my attention was directed to Detective Farrell's evidence before a committee of the House, in which he put the fact of my having chosen often to amuse myself with a harmless game of cards in a private room at an hotel, as if it were something yery bad indeed, and reflected on the character of Inspector Atchison i Mr. Honaghan, and other geotlercen. With your permis ion I will give Farrell's probable reason for having dono this. Some three years ago, whilst I was employed on the literary staff of the New Zealand Times, Farrell presented hfrnself ip my office, told a piteous tale of haying been dismissed from the Otago police force, and wept copiously. Though I knaw little or nothing of the man, my pity being excited, I introduced him to Inspector Atcbisou and Sergeant- Major Monaghan. and he was taken on in the Wellington police, thanks to the kindness of those gentlemen. Subsequently his detestable manner of obtaining evidence in a criminal trial drew upon him a severe, rebuke from {he Chief Justice, and obtained for him a leading article (alt to himself, as they say) in tbe New Zea'and Times. He called upon me in connection with this matter, and having permitted himself to use mysterious threats as to what his political and police influence might not do to injure me,

wm ordered out of my room, and told never to J darken its doors again. I presume that t*ie \ fact that Messrs. Atchison and Monaghan bad ] shewn kindness to him, whilst I, certainly, i had not been unkind, was sufficient to induce i him afterwards to make a paltry attempt to ¦ injure all{three. ¦ I am, &c, ( John M. Pbriier.