Police Prosecutions and Hotelkeepers
TO THB EDITOB OF THB STAB. ' '•' Sib, — Constable " Gillespie has made, quite a raid on Feilding publicans 7 and sinners. I notice that out of some fifteen informations he obtained about five convictions, and most bf~these five were obtained by the false swearingyof ~M*JV/ witnesses. Will he prosecute them P In it ito be tolerated that the. court, apd several lawyers are to be occupied a whole day through the ill-advised action of this indefatigable constable ?y Stanly? it would only be retributive justioe if — some of these five convictions were upset ' on appeal, and the costs of the app^alsy,. . were ordered to be paid by the constable^ i ! , —I am, Wm. S. Staitb:^ "' i
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 33, 30 August 1884, Page 2
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