POKING POLICE.

NZ Truth, Issue 87, 16 February 1907, Page 4

POKING POLICE.

On Tuesday morning a poor "innocent girl vras shot dead by a treacherous rotter, m Abel Smith-street.' Her murdeirer was arrested soon after, by Constable Carmody. Then ' Sergeant McK ay -arrived at the house of the distracted mother and searched for bullets. He found one, "but actually failed to take it with him to the inquest. That, however, is only a side, issue.- What is of greater public interest is | the fact that- after McKay, * according -to the "Evening Post" of the same day; " Sub-Inspector o 'Donovan, Detectives Kemp, Broberg, and, Williams, and other members of the force appeared qn the scene. The depositions of Mrs ' Axup , and the ■../young girl's brother were taken, and accused was quietly removed- to the Police Station; ( . Now jean any decent reason ne given by any or all of that mob of peelers for forcing' their presence and silly questioning- en the heart-broken mother of the poor girl' at such a time of sorrow and poignant grief ? It was brutally indelicate, totally unnecessary and nothing less than a gross outrage. The case was a clear one of murder. The murderer was under arrest and there was a ■sergeant m"' charge of the premises. What the 'devil die? .all the rest, of the idle intruders, want at the house?. Friends say the place was ...like a Rolice^. barracks aiid' the tramp of huge/<ill-booted feet ? '6ver the" flboV of ' riity think 'Wellinj£t6h' had been vis.ited by . another " earthquake. Can Com-r missioner Dinnie offer any excuse for this outrageous intrusion upon a bereaved mother at such' a time ?