Gone North

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 6

Gone North

ONE big sigh reached the rafters of the Dunedin detective office when, the other week, one of the gaol cells was made vacant by the northbound departure of a certain criminal whose long sojourn at Dunedin prison marks an epoch m the criminal court history of the city— or, 'for that matte/, the Dominion. It was the local force's long pent-up sign of relief «r being at last able to close the record-books upon the most i l-otractod murder trial heard in-Dun-udin. and he whose lungs were fullest expanded, was Detective Bennet Far-! quharson. For a comparatively young man whe has been only five years with the detective branch.. B.P. has thus far shown remarkable adaptability to hi; work. ' The manner m which he handled the police inquiries m the Kyeburn tragedy has reflected great commendation upon his department, and Farquharson' is deserving' of . every scrap of praise which has since come his way. Ben. might not bear the . appearance of an Edgar Wallace hero — that versatile author not yet having hitched his plot around ' a quiet, unassuming and clean-limbed New Zealander. But B.F. has shown that he doesn't let the grass grow under his feet.