TEE POLICE AND REVOLVERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 5

TEE POLICE AND REVOLVERS.

; STATEMENT BY SUPERINTENDENT KIEIiY. ' ■ (By Telegraph,—Pross Association.) V; ... Chrtotchurch, April 2. A reporter, brought : under the notice of . Superintendent luely. to-riight certain ■■ statements.to,. that one member of'the police forcewits' reported to. hare . been, armed hvith a revolver at the Clock. Tower :last Saturday j' evening,. when an • anti-militarist orator was arrested. ' ? Superintendent Kiely: stated that there r. was not 1 the' slightest likelihood that either of tho members of the force indi- . , cated' was ..carrying . revolvers,.; and ho Kavo the statement an unqualified denial. The two men were rot on usual police patrol on Saturday evening, aud-both '; were ;on duty 'lor the purpose of serving the warrant, as they ivere both acquaint- , ■ cd with the person wanted.' There was no desire on tho. part, of the authorities .'■< , to arrest, the anti-militarist at the Clock Tower, but as he could not be found dur- , .' ing j.the day in,liis. usual haunts, he was . . arrested .at the , Clock,' Tower, . .where, ac':cording to an ' announcement made by him,'he" intended addressing, the public. .'The police are supplied' with revolvers," ■ Superintendent v Kiely continued, "but; they: never'..'carry them about with l , ;them. ' You w;iil usually, find the weapons . " in.'" tlie 'drawers at the polico stationOnly in case of the town being attacked by a gang of desperadoes would members 'of the forco' : arm themselves with' re- . volvers, but there is no necessity; to use, ; revolvers against the.crowd that assemble '•".at'.'tho; Clock iToWcr." Ono phase of tho matter'the superintendent 1 considered ought to be empha-. jsised.! Ho did not know what the object l was in making the: allocation, but it was possible that it was made , for the purpose .of giving tho • anti-militarists .'some col-' ourable excuse for; arming . themselves against .the police. .He desired tliafc it ■ '"'Should be widely known that tho ■ police ■ did not carry-arms,'and that, consequently, the allegalion that they did would be no .eicuse for. anyone'carrying revolvers.