JOSIAH WHITE'S CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6834, 23 April 1890, Page 3

JOSIAH WHITE'S CASE.

O Legal Difficulties Overcome. Remanded to Christchurch. [Pee Fbbsb Association.} INVERCABGILL, Apbil 23. Difficulties have frequently occurred I here over arrests of defaulting bankrupts, criminals, &c, at the Bluff, en route to Melbourne, by the police on telegraphic information. The late Resident; Magis» trate used invariably to decline to remand, and discharged persons arrested without warrant when brought before him. Josiah White was brought up yesterday, two lawyers appearing and asking for a discharge, on the ground that he had been arrested illegally without a warrant. How* ever, the police came into possession of a warrant from Ghristchnrch before the Court sat. Sergeant M'Donald tapped his man on the shoulder, and made a formal arrest under it. Thus the legal gentlemen were left without a leg to stand on. Judge Bawson, K.M., before whom the case was heard, made a suggestion as to how to avoid the old difficulty in future. He stated that the proper course for the police to pursue when they received telegraphic intimation that a warrant had been issued against anyone elsewhere was to lay an information that they had reason to believe that so-and-so had committed such and such an offence, and upon that sworn information obtain a warrant from the local Magistrate. Upon this warrant the accused could be detained and brought up, and if the other warrant arrived in the meantime no difficulty would arise. The bankrupt White was remanded to Christchuroh to appear there on Friday.