DISCLAIMER.
To''the Editor of the Akaroa Mail
Sib, —I see by the report of the R.M. Court, in your issue of the: 15th instant,* that.l,, along .with■.-,some . ?others,.'were charged with using, insulting language;to females in Lavaud street, on the sth irist* By the action taken by the police in de-, dining to go on with the charge against me, I was prevented from showing that I had no connection whatever with the matter in question. I - was* neither near * the. persons or place at the #me charged, and, it is hardly fair of the,police to put peri'sbrisatthebar on charges in the hope of being able to drop upon the' culprit, and. after they find they have no case, simply withdraw;the charge. I take this public opportunity of giving a denial to the charge,|jvhich I trust you will make as public as the .report of the case in question. —Yours, &c, "■■;'•. ; . JOSEPH BATES.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 356, 16 December 1879, Page 2
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152DISCLAIMER. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 356, 16 December 1879, Page 2
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