THE COBDEN POLICE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 621, 11 January 1870, Page 2

THE COBDEN POLICE.

(To the Editor' of the Grey River Argw.) Upon looking over your issue of the Bth. instant I find an article commenting upon the proceedings in a case in the R. M. Court here, wherein a man named Spence was charged with the wilful destruction of property. With all due deference, I think you have been rather hasty in your conclusions, as \ am afraid you received. . your information from parties inimical to the Sergeant in charge of the police here, in consequence of that officer having offended certain individuals by the discharge of his. duties. I will thank you to insert the following explanation of the little sceno referred to in your looal ;-=^-Instruc-. tions were issued by the Inspector to tha police that they were not to entangle them-. selves in cases where feelings of a private nature possibly might exist, at the same time to aid and help to procure as much evidence as possible 5 the order furthermore stated, that the parties to the case were to make their own statements. In consequence of the above order the police did not prosecute in the case oi Kelly v. Peadon for assault. The Sergeant did not tell the constable that he would not prosecute, but gave him the order as. he re-, ceived it. Sergeant Neville's zeal for the service is too well known to require any aidframmy pen, aud as the Sergeant haa " demanded an investigation into the whole matter, I think you should withhold your judgment on the case till we. know the result. " O.OB,DEtfIIE. Cobden, Jan. 10, . [Wenever questioned Sergeant Neville* * zoal for the service, so that element must w not be imported into the discussion. -We " expected that our correspondent was. about to contradict the paragraph referred, to, and we regret tha.t he has fully con-* firmed the principal fac*3 contained in it.-.Ep.}