CONTINUED REMANDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11194, 27 April 1922, Page 5

CONTINUED REMANDS

“THE ABUSE OF PROCEDURE.” COUNSEL PROTESTS IN COURT. When the case against Robert Nyberg, for theft of a pair of field- .glasses, was called at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the police requested * remand. ' • “I don’t like to stand in the way of the police,” said Mr W. E. Leicester, counsel for the accused', “hut this man has already been remanded twice. The circumstances aro that Nyberg and the complainant, Bak,_ were camped together at works in Taihape. The accused! borrowed, the glasses for a race meeting, and came to Wellington shortly afterwards. His friend gave jam reasonable time to return them, and, not knowing where Nyberg had gone, wrote to the police. The man was brought up on. the 11th and 18th, and remanded till to-day. Each time he comes here he loses a day’s work, and I submit that this as an abuse of court procedure, and that, if t)ie police de not bring the case at once, it should be dismissed.” The trouble, said Senior-Sergeant Lander, was that his principal witness, who had to come down from Taihape, had wired that he was unable to get away. The facts were not quite as counsel stated!. Nyberg had! no authority at ’ all to take the glasses. “Very well; remanded for a week — the last remand,” said Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M.

Bail was renewed in the existing amount.