Oar Wellington Letter

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 21, 3 August 1889, Page 3

Oar Wellington Letter

fraOM ova ows cqeeespondent.) Wemjugton, August 2. Ex-Inspector Sullen has certainly not acquired the art of self control during his 4 erm of police inspection, for he is now, -through his indiscretions, an inmate of flic very cells io which he has spent so many years of his life in trying to bring .others to- A few nights ago the residents •of Taranaki street were aroused from their slumhers by the report -of fire arms, :and on several persons appearing on the £cene from whence came the souuds, they found the ex-Inspector busily engaged in removing furniture' from the house of a woman with whom lie had had a difference. On these gentlemen remonstrating on the woman's behalf, they were eonironted lay a revolver, and told to march off, Bullen afterwards firing the weapon into the air- The sequel to this Ameri■canism was that he was arrested and tried ibr the offence, and now lies in 4< Kmbo," -waiting for some kind-hearted person to Ibail h^ m oat until next sittings of the Supreme Court, to jhe tune of a couple of hundred pounds, which does not seem to he forthcoming though Bullen assured the Bench that he -could easily get £1000, if necessary- His conduct in court was decidedly eccentric, and his utterances were fax from discreet, one of which was that " it would be quite a pleasure to be shot with a revolver like that." Bullen's counsel asked the Bench to look upon the Affair as a bad practical joke, but the Bench could not see where the joke came in. The Chemis trial, as might well be imagined, has furnished the scandalmongers of the city with a vast field to work upon, and one lady (Mrs Hawkings), to ■whom much sympathy should be shown At this time, has. not escaped the foul tongue of the slanderer* It having been freely circulated that during the late trial Mrs Hawking* was to be seen nightly at thewieatee, and also that her conduct on the nigh* of the murder was very suspicious, or to say the least of it unwifely, as it was «*id sne •bowed no anxiety as to her htishand's absence though she knew the trap had come home wfthout him, Mrs Hawkioga has felt it necessary to answer these statements, and in a letter to the P«»* » f« w « v «nings since she says B he west out and cooed several times, and that later on in the evening Dr Cahill met her and said her husband had met with accident and had been taken to the Hos--nitaU and further tbat she could not see liim mail nine the next morning. This letter, »f course, dears up what did at the time seem v»*y peculiar conduct on the partef*"*^ 9 - A writer in the Evening Press gives a er - iagcriptw* idea of how he thinks the murder of Mi Thomas Hawkings was L,minitted. He is very decided in his of api«i«P. Baym? without Wtatkm, " and the murderer's same is Tr.Ai« Ohemifl." IJ»*«r oa the same S BSVt : "If Cherais is liberated God W.»r Cahill and Mr BeUXCrown ProsUftutorV' The letter throughout is a very able one and' hag caused much comment. Th» Post Office chime bells, which - * now been in going order for over a Kd3K; are hot M that ci>m be de**Sl The fourth beD of ope of the Ss is decidedly "'flat," tod unless f!*nediea will, be > lasting grievance to