A HARD CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 83, 27 July 1876, Page 3

A HARD CASE.

[f'com Wednesday's " Guardian."] i'usus of severe hardship, arising from a limit of ordinary discretion in the issuing »f criminal warrant* by those- to whom tlio machinery of the law is entrusted, fiiivu not unfreiptently been related and c-miunented upon ; but fortunately for the vaunted liberty of the Ikifish subject. the absolute cruelty of the proceedings inutitntrd against a man named Win. U corgis Sale, remanded here from Wellington, has but few parallels. Sale was hvimglit up before the City Police- Bench on Monday, and remanded till yesterday. ! Ko had been arrested by » r .detective at | Wellington, on a warrant watted at the ! instigation of one Alfred Taylor, for larceny no a baitoo. The particulars of the olfonce disclosed in the information was that in May last Hale disposed of a watch valued at .£'."> which he previously had reBHivad from Taylor. On the prisoner hi'ing introduced to the Ifench, Inspector Mallard intimated that a.* the prosecutor derived to withdraw the prosecution, the police, who had simply done their duty in the matter, eoutd not insist on the pro- ] wiulingf* being continued. Cht behalf ©f Siih; a somewhat touching story wad told. It appears that he was an English nnuerKi'udttate, til highly respectable antecedent-*, and welt connected, but since his arrival in the C'ofej«f he had reatised considerable finding remunerative employmentlMEFaytor, who set the law in motion, wafltfescribed as ki an idle lo*fev" who had spfiwed on Safe during his jwasugK from and after his arrival hi the CToTony borrowing money and clothing., fn March' Tast Sfate waa employed tn the railway gwds shed, aod Taylor then prestmted him with his watch. sahjc.t|tttfQl|£ getting hard-npv Sale gave thjj?ftfttch jb security for money advanced, the watch as hk own property, Althooglr

letters had puneS between him and Taylor, nothing farther transpired abmrt I the watch until, having gone- to Wc-liing- ! ton, he was suddenly arrest kl. Pli*.» Itcufh commented on the nee."— :*y t*->r the «\.;rerse of caution in isstiiiii oi-nnnm I warrants, and in discharging tin- pi-w.t-r ! intimated that he left the Court whii-.mil a .«tain on his character—poor reparation to a man so deeply injured.