WAS CAREY CAJOLED ?

NZ Truth, Issue 76, 1 December 1906, Page 3

WAS CAREY CAJOLED ?

Serious Allegation Against Auckland Copmen. At the Auckland Magistrate's Court last Thursday a case was heard which, if the allegations made are true, throws more limelieht on the methods adopted by Cullen's copmen. Apparently the 'tec branch of this sweet section of blue-bottledom is ! ! not the onl" one actin" on the maxim j i "It is our duty to obtain convict- I ions." But let the tale be unfolded. ! Samuel James Carey, a boy of 14 ♦years, went out to work -on Monday .

of last week (Nov. 19). The par- 1 ticular business upon which he was engaged was the distribution of tickets advertising the fact that, business not being too brisk, the "oody-goody West-Brescian Company were prepared to give large parties a reduction m price at His Majesty's. On the particular Monday boy Carey jogged alon"' Newton Road distributing the tickets into the houses on his route. His business received a sudden set-back, however, when the cast-iron mauler of Constable O'Grady descended on his shoulder,, and the owner thereof whispered into Carey's lug the suggestion that he had been over- : doing the house-to-house, delivery ' business. What O ? Grady actually accused the boy of was breaking and entering the dwelling of George Heighton m Newton Road. The fourteen year old alleged Charles Peace, on hearing the charge, prompt-: ly ■ • ! CALLED O'GRADY A LIAR, or hinted as much. However, he was lugged off to the jugging depot and there, by some means, he signed a statement admitting his guilt. Before S.M. Kettle, however, giving evidence on oath, the boy swore that j he was frightened into making the statement. He explained' that' the constable kept badgering him. He now told' Mr Kettle that the statement was untrue and he was frightened when he made it. He thought that, having signed the statement, he v.ould be released. The boy added that whilst m the police cells, he asked Constable O'Gradv if he had any witnesses who had seen hr-n enter the house. . . faurcly a nj-.tiual j question of a boy of fourteen, making his first .acquaintance with the dreaded cell, to af-'k. ■ And the kindhearted, sev'n-.. sympathetic O'Ora- | dy. answ? c ' '.■its mv business." How. -no. >/!••■■• v ' ■ "nerous ! The evidences o.- -d iai., though the house bad' been entered, Iher-e 'wan noth ; ng hissing, although the rooms were m Hso dei-. Eventually. th>3 Magistrate decided to. send the case to the Supreme Court and allowed ?;ail m one surety, of £25. .■Whether the boy Oarev^ was frightened into iral-ins; a on!>*'sior> r>- ; ■'■' ■■""" therefore left, for Mr Justice Edwards aiu* „iu-y to decide.