STRONG CRITICISM.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 30 July 1937, Page 3

STRONG CRITICISM.

OF DETECTIVE'S ACTION.

"I DON'T LIKE IT."

MAGISTRATE'S COMMENTS

[By Telegraph. —Jfress Association] AUCKLAND, July 29. "I don't like it," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday afternoon, in. commenting on the actions of a detective in a house to which he had gone to interview a man whose motor lorry had earlier struck a stationary motor car. The driver of the lorry was charged with being intoxicated when in charge of i: motor truck and with dangerous driv-

Detcetive Gillum said he went to accused's house at 12.45 a.m. Accused's wife answered the door and said her husband was in bed. She asked witness and the two constables who accompanied 'him to come hack the next, day, but subsequently they were admitted when witness told her that an early interview was important as there was a question of accused's sobriety.

When witness said that he had been in the hoiise half an hour trying to reason with accused and find out his condition, the magistrate commented that that was the wrong course. The correct way would have been to ask accused if he would sec witness. If accused asked the detective to go back the next day he was within his rights. Witness had no search warrant. "1 don't like it," the magistrate added. "I don't like' it."