DETECTIVE MILLER'S CASE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1678, 19 February 1913, Page 6

DETECTIVE MILLER'S CASE.

' STATEMENT BY HIS SOLICITOR. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, February .18. Ex-Detective John P.- Miller, concerning whose coinmital to Roto Roa 6ome of the facts havo already been made knowii, returned to the island this morning, in company with Staff-Captain Hayncs. Ho was. seen off bj his eolicitor, Mr. J, R.. Lundon, who lias been investigating the circumstancos- of Miller's committal to Roto Roa, and whose efforts to have the' c«so reheard have so far been unavailMr. Lundon, referring to a statement mado Vy tho Minister for Justice, that "the statements niado by Miller as. to hie practical abstention front alcohol for some years, are not torn out by his Departmental record," said that, Miller challenged the Department to prove this statement, or to produce any Deportmontal, record which did not bear out his state-, mentas io his practical abstention from: alcohol since August, 1903. With regard to the Minister's comment "that ho was certain the magistrate satisfied himself on the evidence of and others that tho case was one' in which thd evidence disclosed the necessity of acceding to tho application of a rolativo for his committal," Miller desired to state that neither of t'hlo two doctors who gave evidence denied the faot that they had not seen him, and had not examined him for a period of three years prior to and including the date of his committal. Both, ho alleges, admitted on oath that-they had based their opinion partly on events which had, happened many years ago, and partly on what the relative who was instrumental in Miller's committal had informed them.