Extraordinary Scene in a Police Court.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 175, 24 February 1888, Page 3

Extraordinary Scene in a Police Court.

A r\lnonliuar\ -cone occurred in ti.« Police Court at Gore on the 17th m.-t. A man it lined ltorland wu eh with < blaming 2s by false |twtei.ces front George Isiw. On the lUnch were Messrs J. S. Simson (the Max or I aud Me-srs Soulless and .M iiiWkhi. Prisoner pleadtsl trinity. Mr Sc uness at once said the sentence xx>'old he one week's imprisonment in the Invercargill Gaol. Tin* Mayor interrupted : 1 am chairman here, aud all the decisions must come through me. Mr Sonne** said lie xx-as chairman. Then occurred a scene that baffles description. The police said the prisoner was an old oflendor. The Nlavor saw! it was a disgrace to justice, the way Mr Souiicss and Mr M‘Gibbon acted. He was chair mail and would give the man a month. A struggle was made for the Court and Messrs Soulless and M’Gibbon. tret ting poo session of it. made the iwcisMn entry aud left tlie lieucli; the Mayor all the while protesting, and saying that, though they had gone, lie would try the case himself. The other Justices should be in the place that the prisoner occupied. He blamed the clerk for favoring Messrs !• nine-' aid M'Gibbou, and .said that the whole tiling was a plot. The police uupiind as to what verxlict was to lie acted upon, but no reply was given, and His Worship adjourned the Court till next morning. He would appeal to the Minister of Justice at once. A telegram from inspector lluckley gave I tor land a ) Vi ry had character.