SEARCH BEFORE ARREST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 8

S EARCH BEFORE ARREST.

SUSPECTED MAN'S POCKET* I REPROOF FROM JUDGE. ' "ACCUSED DID NOT OBJECT.'' —~ — ~~ '''T?"£:: : r"(~"Vv| I'BT TELEGRAPH.-i-OWN 'CORUKSPOJTDffijif '" : ''i DUNBDIN. Wednesday. " . During the trial at the Supreme Court 1 to-day of Thomas Joseph Christie, charged ' with .. breaking and entering, Detective ; ■' Lean stated that he had found £60 on th : I accused when lie had searched him J : ,; the police station. ,| Mr. Justice Sin; said that the witness ? had not given his evidence in sequence. He had got it "mixed up." "Did vou : search the accused before you. arrested him asked His Honor. - • ;>:; " The witness admitted that he had searched Christie before ho had arrested f him. - . •;.- ~-:.'/. His Inijor: What business had "on to search this man if you had not .arrested' ' him? ; v ~ Detective Lean: There were some • sag. picious circumstances. His Honor: Well, if you find a man under suspicious circumstances, are von ' ' entitled to search him " -: Detective Lean: The accused did not'< ' object. • -jH A His Honor: What choice had he? You, and Detective Snedden grabbed him and overhauled his pockets. -■'/,; Just, prior to this incident the Jnd~ had refused to permit the Crown Solid. ' tor to try to establish the identitv of the - ■ accused by means of a piece of par-? . found in his pocket, and which it War alleged wa part of a tag from aWvbelonging to the Otago Farmers' Co-oper tive Association. His Honor said that ir was absurd for the Crown to endeavour - to establish the identify of the accused by means, of such a piece of paper.