POLICE CHANGES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 426, 8 February 1909, Page 5

POLICE CHANGES.

'RETIRED OH PROMOTED.

.CAREERS OF, WELL-KNOWN OFFICERS. INTERESTING PARTICULARS. Tho following changes are announced in tho Police,and Prisons Department.— Sub-Inspector Dwjor, Napier, has boon promoted to-bo inspector at A'apier - , , Chief Detective M'Grath. Wellington, mil be sub-inspector at Chnstchurch ■• ' vw Station-lsergoant ( Hendry; Auckland, is made Bub-inspector'at' Auckland Detective Broberg, Wellington, becomes chief deteotiYO, at -jWellinjiton Sergeant Treaiibi, is made stationsergeant, .and. removed to Auckland Mr. M. "M". Clearj. goverror of Lyttelton Gaol, retires under the ago limit \ , s f 1t ; GAOLER GLEARYJ usi < f (BX TkLsSllUlf — bftClkX. 'catLdii?Otioivi,t Chnstchurch, February 7. . ■ Mr. Matthew-Michael Geary, governor "of Lyttelton Gaol, who is about itoj leave i the* prison service as a result ot tho decision pi the Government to retire all Civil Servants' wbOjlmyo passed tho v age hmit of H 65 jears, joinca the service ss a warder over 45 years ago, and io: nearly forty U o j cars in his capacity 'as dniefgadlcf, has been saddled'with tho responsibility of the safe custody. of thousands'of cuminalst His< onerous idutiaff appear to have sat lightly on bun, fpi. even now with his seventj-hvo_ycars behind Turn, ho is still active'and strong"and neariyjjaifd/ to uso his own words, ißL"good Tot gears'' ln"tho irlsjv'-C'onst&bulary^„, ' To a representative of tho "Press, 1 ! „Mi. Cleary gave tho story of nis career --Ho vvasbom in 18S4 at MilFoV County Clare", rlreland, w'keio his,£athor was. engaged jn rug At tjbp ago of 16 soars ten ( months ho joined the Irish Cohstabulirj, giving his age aB 21 > years, and.ill ISoIJi were going out to tho Crimea, he was on, duty in Cork assisting- to keep back' tho crowds which had'gathered-to i,wif tho departure of, a troopship. .EressecJ-Jby ritl}Q, crowd, a lady fell oil tho wharf tad_ i *&,B h 'bfr> uig carried out by tho ebb -tide when-young Cleary, in full unifornvjuniped jn T and-«hel(L her up until both"v-ero~rcscued_by J ji boet.' For this act of braveij Mr Cleary,-then only twenty } ears-of'age, 'received special pro* ■motion to j tho rank of sergeant, «and -.was awarded tho Royal Humane Society's gold medal. " " ' "■•'*. ■ / i - r » Comes to Otago'wlth "BraiH^aA's'MoVi." Shortly after 'that he went 'into tho serve forco in Dublin, and, in. 1857, he resigned from the Constabulary and came ouU in a sailing ship to }l£lboui,nc f In ho was appointed city police in Molbourno, wLicli position hB held until 1861. In thut j ear, tho, Gabriel's Gu{lj& gold rush broke out in Otago, and the; Provincial Government sent to Melbourne ipi an inspector and two constables for t tho purpose of organismg the police l foieo m Otago. Mr Bumgan (inspector) and SergtMajoi Bracken v (both long t since ,dead) aha Sorgeant Cleary vvci'o appouvted, and came across to Otago. On Cold Escort Duty. Sergeant Cleary, with twelve men under Mm ton, was engaged for some time on the gold, escort from Dunstan's, Dunedin 'ihe escort, on many occasions, had-to-sleep m ft.-st*bio-with_tha-gald~uiider thoir. heads, and sentries posted outside. "We" had, on tho whole, a very quiet timo of it," said Mr. Cleary "Busk-ranging was , very nfo, and going through "certain bush clistncts wo were travelling with our bridle reins in one hand and our revolvers at half cock in tho other But wo were never interreied wjth.", , ~ J ;i ' '\ * Gaoler at r Hokitika. , Sergeant Chary icmarned in tho notice forco until 186!) when he resigned and jouled the prison service. Ho had only been two months m the sorvneo when ho -was mado seigeaut (or what is known now as principal warder) in Dunedin gaol in May 186 i.' very shoitly after ,appdinted gaoler at Hokitika- That was about two years after the gold rush, and Hokitika, though a busk townsliip, was a busy place, with a fairly largo -population He icmarned until and was transferred to' Auckland,,but tho climate did not suit him, and,''alter two months', hb' was transrorred,. back to Hokitika. - " l " - • --' ; Twlenty-ono al Lyttelton. , He remained there until November 1888, when he was appointed governor of Lyttelton Gaol Ho has remained there ever since. "I Icomplotedi myHwentieth year as governor! of LvttoltQn,Gaol,"_he said, "and my forty-fifth year* of "unbroken service Mn tho prison s;orvice of New Zealand. Outside of accidents l 1 have'never had a day of sickness in my life,- I took the pledgo_at Jlra age of eleven years, and have never touched liquorr find have never smoked, and, at the present time, I feel as lit as everl did " - - ~ '-' '- A 1 Grlrh -Bit "of the Story. ,' During' his long career he has been present at only two executions, both at Lyttelton a i<sv They wero the most distressing experiences which he had over had and ho would prefer nevei to have witnosswl them "Mmo has been a very uncvonllul career in tho prison service," said Mr. Cloary "I have" had thousands of criminals under my chargo, but- have- had r no.Vbry 51th ,any»of them. ' - ' ' " -i-c. -.-^ , , , INSP,EGtORqWYER. T ';- r ' •" (DY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL" COHttESPONDENTj _jV>l ,"l '• -.Napier,.February 7. J Tho promotion" of Sub'liispectorj'pwyer to the position of inspector at Napier has-ibcOn expected here, and the appointment is' a most' popular_oJ»o jrhe'newly-promoted inspector joined the polioolor'ce in November, 1878 rand is";now jli years\of age He was first stationed in Dunodin'm 1885, and was promoted to tho position,of distnct clerk at Oamaru, when that town was tho hoadquartels statfotf of "tho 'North Otago and South Canter- > bury polico districts ut'der Inspector Thompson., in 1883 ho was promoted to be assistantseigeaiit, and, in 1891, was appointed gaoler' at Oamatu Gaol In 18Q7 he was'appointed to tho charge of Otago goldfields district and, in the following yenr, 'VasUransferied to the. city of Chnstchurch as a sectionaLsergeoaiSJ In,,the" yeaf •following ihakJhc took cbflige of-Wan-gartm 1 statiottr and' in-iaQ24iras-pro-moted to be sub-inspector in charge of Dunodin City, but, towards the end of that- vcar, was'transferred to the' charge of the 'city of ChristohSlrcli,'Ljrt«u6 ho.' Mi beetf f tatioued •u,nt|J tho,prcs-3nt time ' Mentioned In an Importanf , During'the Iriternstional' spector'D'wyer had solo" of -police *ar-, TangomontSf, In his official'' wp'ort to -1 thu Righf Hon 1 the, Secretary, jf Statorforjlio Colonies) Captain Atkin,. British sionor, spoko in -terms ok high vcommoiiaa,--* tion of tho singular skill and discretion which charaotonssd' tho 4 police nrrani;cnicttts and tho admuablo mannen in-which was secuicd to tho large numbei of visitors, both in tho buildings and 111 the grounds This was "chiefly duo to Inspectoi Dwyor's.'uk. dustry,• tact,"and geniality. i •■ . ~,. Distinguished Acts of'.Bravery. While'in'the service,''the t mrlinspeotor has, on more than one occasion, distinguished himself by acts of bravoiy, and, in 1882, was the means of saving the lifo of-Mrs. Kitohenor, wifo of Captain Kitchener, and a llear relative of Lord Kitehcuer,, and ajso tho lives of others, from wliat wis known as tho Cumberland' Street _firo this ,aot ho was awarJcd-a'silver-.medal In 1892 ho was again awaided the Royal Humane Society of Australasia's certificito of -merit for risking his life to savo,» in Oamaru Hirbour one darji and cold m'sbC After swimming out a eighty jards ho brought the man ishoro alive, but tlie man died on th& beach'"soon after from the effects of tho cold and 1 exposure 1 A.itroko of Gonius7 Inspector Dwyer has been connected with many big cases during his in tllp Service and, during 'the jmt ten yeais has puk somo important fases through their initial stages It may boMnteresting to note that, as far back as 188f, and some time before the- finger print system was introduced at Hoke, he was the first member of tho police

conceive-the idea; of :;ta"k--"■'sj?\ ipf/the f hands ;aiid:;feet,pf_/pri-" ;;:';;/; sbners'^asHa^means;. ,bf//idehtifioation^/: /In J^that.'year: r a/bandi of ;liurgiars /visited/pamaru, ln;oho :;WS//placeVa;nientrance"|ivas'Hma'deifrbrii 'the/rbbf a/large skyHght,;and," by;the:.'aid of ;jiJ; S, 1 a ';; of £ 'Swas'';.able"-; to ;'//;/ ireach. vthb' ground .flbbr/ ;:Tne;;one ', who' accoin;S;/i in; shelf/wherb; ,Stoa;;large/quantity/;of;,'dustv:had ;'|/;;/andv from; there on .to/a'/.clean.'.sheet "of blot-; /Tiaper^vuse^:" as r .; : a; : ';-piidpV ;on" : tlie,'office tablevsHiß; left<,the':blear.;imprult ,of .the 'barb i/» fright, fobt;H'herebnn; ; iThis;'thb;.mspcctpr'*tbok ? when vthreb;; men '.::?:'(i-;rested;.on:Buspicjbh,:he..obta;m ■Sf and/'? with!; ■• aidj'i/'bj; -v'spme. -sple";pf ;the ./fright;foot; of. eachw'Heithen; mSde;tbem.:walk : jp:/'exactly f/*Syb ; st ;: itf'^urt,/and/the; phot*'and';imprint;were ex;KJ';Hbitedijtliis/prisoner:;ph;aded; guiltyV;/:/;;;;. ;3S?Ss -//isu B-i ector;' m'c rAt Hyl;y'v; :; \ : : &> i;;;. ! ;G^uine/regret^,wiil' ; be:MtNiri''Weliington. /#;;'ali:tbet:lbss ! :of .Cnief;Detebtivo/MfGfath, -who /'ftSbad-: 1 ' as!/part;(and■m'. parcel/bf the localfofce;/Mf. ! ;M'Grath'Came ;//?^. :^med/the/'Constabulary, .in.'lß7B.' 'He/servedTaranaki during: the ?• /SParihaka tVbubfe. ■; In/1882 he-took up police '/ : KS'dnty'-.iri-' '-Wellington,;; Cetective' in 1885; ;^serving'■; in '/Wellington;• V:S,Aubkland,-'and i Dunedhi.fe,'ln-'1899 - he-was -;M''pointed.Chief ; Detective at'^ellington,;which; /?:Sjo«ition:;he :; /^?Be^tor/:'Mr'.'--M l ;/■'''/..and.many.importan'tcases'stand to;his oredit. /> ii-One of/the / hibst'; nptprion5 A ca'ses;the 'new' Sub-/;,->:".lnipectpr,.}ias^^,had,to?dbal'with:;'was'.the_ arrest, ?/w ofithe-i^man-Deans^fbr/baby;farming ■i "■s■ in-. June7'.lß9s. \;. Thbr,; woman;; ; : death, I ;atidiis stated'.to: i:.J^b'e;'tee^p^yr•TOnlan/ ; rh' New; £^Z&landV ! ;; V'/Kthe/case'if'iKe bad/'anytiiing?tp:sayj whyV'seri-' && ■te'nbbfshpuld ■;' "accused*,/said. 5 to-thank■.Defeptiye''^MsGi , ath;; .;-/",//;fpr-vthe'' fairness and ; great:'kmdness.'J/.have' ;f>:!|jassing::pf Justice W'.hisvppihion-'th'e ' "./y/country/mu'st; careful , ■ '/yand'thorough.'TO '/&"police, and: wa's K pres3iited'' te' the;Cburt;-; This ; : .;•:';;. was'/only one: of 'several > cases >iii : ; which':, the On '■'■• ancther/.occasien/'jafter; ::;;/';bfingingi two' /-;■;^/din,':;Judge/Donriistpn: arid'counsel for \the. i; ;j ;! r .crimmals:;'.fpr. :'_robbing. ;'.l9;tho';l)unedin:Savhigs;Bank, ;i :./;;-;;-liam's,'bn'ce more/bbngratulated-Mr.; M'Grath;: 'f; j//;and./mbr'e [recefltly:,he,was:,cpmm.ended/b'y:Mr., i£££ Ju^ice; > Cpbper v : :for !tie"part;;hevpbiyed;with," '..:/;;'-'DejiectiveiCassellsiri the/arrest some .safer" ;:ftjMynamiter's/in; Wellington./,; Mr/ has trips /to^Austrah^/.J.brij./pplice^ ';f/;.;;tb,l^ndpri:'tb/bring;;backv;orie: : /./f/r/chargeXpf-be 2:;-.: robbery?,in' bf/'ebh-. s :';:-' 'ygratulatibh/frbm^;all:,bver":New,'Zealarid ; haye j : ;:;;,Eterally : . poured'.ih/.o'ii--th6^'ne^'> , Sub'-iaspect6r. .f.vi'/sinbe' Saturday 'evening;;'many>;bf;them;from ;;;;.}.,/men he .had./been able ito"-assist whose exis.:/,;/;teri'ce/;he: had'almost--forgqttert;-//v/ ■■>■■ ; ; S M|Grath^expects;;.' to ; : lea ve; for/ Christ-; i; week's/ time;'../; ?-;'■/; 'v.';.; : - : . ; ?i/;a;;iTh"b'riew; Chief 'Detective,', /;:/>;;issas'natiyev'b;f' ! i ; V: Hei/firstiworb/'the; the; after five'years'; ser- .! V;Wvice; Vas ; prompted'tb;be;a" detective' at',-Wei?/ ;.': ; : v lingtbn,;where'he: has;dchb'spme'exbptibnally': ;./ :/:'gpod ; ;, the: 'tracking-.of::'Ellisf ;■'■';•. th6.;nrarder6r/ef; .Cbllrnsbn;/'.- at-';: Te ; ■'■; Awaite,/ ;;/:;;tßrOTgh''the^uahine"ranges';^^ Brpberg;baileoV-ihis^quafry/;up..;in; 'j;;.';a':Mt''and;-jushed ;:hrm::befbre?he'cbuld.make: S;'/use'of his;gurii;;/:On;;twb;occasions;the;new; "/'//.Chief ? Detective,; was /out after/Matenga';tf;ev ;/;;;;:Mabri-OTtlaw,/jn;'tne, wiUirpf;Pbver,ty" Bay. T;;/;!/ahd'baptured';Miri/'brii''the" f ;;seco^ ; ; /.v;, The;4pbsition:/of (Xief/Defeive ..wijlvnot' be. ;iH> new; tp'/Mri'ißroberS'/.whb -was'-acting-Chief if; j' the;,absen'c9/inVEngland of, Chief De'te^ J;:;'jti-re/:M'Gra^,/ahd : ;a!sb/;bri''bthe^ ;/;.;bn,'^eh^ ! he/jffove^;himself:.a ;;::-»;,'EecutbrlSßudgets bl''congratulatbry. telegram^' :;;?;.'.jfrorn-; yarioiis'^^^-parts" 6f/i ! .'New:'-;Zbalarid:: , :have. ;// the : , ', : -, apppiiitment:;.was; ariribunced ,on'/Saturday; "''■.