CLOSE OF DUNEDIN GAOL ENQUIRY.
Dunedin, This day
At the gaol enquiry yesterday Captain Hume made a someivhat lengthy speech in reply to Mr Solomon's address on behalf of Mr Caldwell. Captain Hume dealt entirely Avith the personal charges and reflections made against him by Mr Solomon. He asserted that those charges were reckless and violent. He had not acted in any way as prosecutor, but admitted that as an officer in the Prisons Department ho had lent all the assistance he could to the Commissioners to elucidate the mysteries and supposed irregularities in the'Duncdin gaol. As to the suggestion that he Avas partial in getting up the evidence, he showed that not a single Avitness of any importance called by Mr Caldwell should have been summoned under any circumstance. He hoped one result of the labors of the Commission would be to bring about a revolution in prison matters, to tho infinite benefit of the colony at large. Tho Commissioners will remain in Dunedin for a few days to inspect the gaol records, and will then report to the Government,
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3767, 11 August 1883, Page 3
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181CLOSE OF DUNEDIN GAOL ENQUIRY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3767, 11 August 1883, Page 3
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