THE INSPECTOR AND THE TEMPERANCE LECTURER.
The Auckland Weekly News says that at a late sitting of the Court, John Cullen, Inspector of Police, was charged, on the information of William Richardson. Prohibition lecturer, that, on October 22 last, he did use insulting language to informant by saying, "You are a cadger and you live by cadging. I will have you prosecuted as a common vagrant. lam not going to allow you to create disturbances with intent to provoke a breach of the peace." Both prosecutor and defendant gave evidence, after which his Worshipsaid he did not think the information would have been laid by Richardson if proceedings had inot been taken against him in connection with the meeting in Victoria street, when Richardson was charged with committing a breach of the city by-laws. There was no grounds for a conviction. Inspector Cullen was the head of the police, and had been trained all his life to discipline his tongue. Richardson was, apparently, just the reverse, and it was a most extraordinary thing that the people who were the most abusive, the most scandalous, and the most defamatory in their language towards others were the first to take offence at a mitt rebuke against themselves. That was part of their stock-in-trade. The case was dismissed.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 146, 13 January 1903, Page 3
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