PLAYING WITH A DETECTIVE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7927, 19 July 1887, Page 3

PLAYING WITH A DETECTIVE.

(Per United Press Association.)

Wellington, July 18.

In ISS2, as the barque Peru was leaving Wellington hnrbour, Detective Chrystall boarded her with a warrant for tho arrest of the cook. Captain Orr refused to give up tho man, and threatened to carry the detective to sea, finally putting him ashore at tho heads iv a dingey. This morning Detective Chrystall arrested the captain, whose vessel re-entered the port on Saturday. He was charged with rescuing and harbouring. The hearing of both cases was postponed till Wednesday, bail being admitted in two sureties of £50 each.

The circumstances under which the captain of the barque Peru cpme to be arrested, as told by Detective Cbrystall, rre ps follows : —Armed with a warrant for tho arrest of Pa'mer, mentioned above, the det'ctive put off in a boat, accompanied by tho informant, and arrived alongside the Peru as the barque was about to depart for Homo. Hav'ng read his warrant to the skipper, the officer went iv so^rch of the cook anJ the stolen property. He obtained the latter, and handed it over to the infoiinantin the boat, and went to capture Pal-ner. Haviug found his man below, he proceeded to bring him on deck, but the task was no easy _ one, as the man (an active fellow) resisted, and to got him up the gangway required the exertion of Detective Chrystall's utmost . strength. Some time therefore elapsed be- ] fore the m»u was finally got on deck, and when this was accomplished the detective found the vessel had put on sail and was bowling away at the rate of knots for tho heads, while the boat by which he had come on board was abaut a mile and a-half distant. Detective Chrystall demanded an explanation of the captain's action, and warned him as to it consequences if he was not immediately put on shore with his man. This the captain resolutely declined to do, and moreover informed the arm of the law that he (Chrystall) should not touch dry land until he stepped ashore at Gravcsend. XJetective Chrystall, however, once more cautioned the skipper as to the probable results of his action, and the latter finally thought it advisablo to put him ashore, which he did at the pilot station, but declined to give up the cook, who therefore remained on board. Upon arrival in England, Captain Orr penned a letter to the New Zealand Times, in which he ridiculed Detective ChrystaH's version of the affair, and defended his action iv retaining the cook as a preventive of dyspepsia, &c.