STOLEN GOODS RECOVERED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 103, 21 June 1911, Page 2

STOLEN GOODS RECOVERED

A PECULIAR POSITION. ACTION AGAINST THE POLICE. ' (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, June 20. A sequel to the charges against Mrs, Bell and her two daughters, recently before the Courts, was hea id hi the .Magistrate’s Court to-day, when the D.I.C. sued Detective Thom•son for tiie recovery of goods, valued at £37 10s 6d, seized hy him at the tune of the arrest of Airs. Bell, in tic course of argument it was stated that the police tonic no responsibility in the matter of goods. They did not belong to them, and they did not care what order was made. Mr. Bedford, who appeared as “amicus curiae,” contended that the real owners of the goods wore Evelyn. Francis E., and Beatrice Bell, and they should have been before the Court. The real case was between the D.I.C. and these three persons. Ary order given now must necessarily prejudice the Bells, because they wore not before the Court. Plaintiff's should have taken such procedure as would have brought the proper parties before the Court. r H.o police should have applied to the Court for an order as to what to do' with the goods, and then the Court would have seen that all parties interested ' wore biought before it. 1 he. Magistrate (Mr, Widdowson) said he thought the Bolls should be joined. He thought the proper thing was to remove the case to the Suin cine Court and have it interpleaded. His A) orship adjourned the case until next Tuesday, and told Mr. Bedford he must take any action he thought ht in the meantime.