MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 371, 2 July 1877, Page 2

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

To TIJH HIiiTOR OK TIIH KVIiN'IM! MA Sin, —\\ 111 you nlioxv Die si suiall s; in your paper to make a complaint. I stopped this morning in Hr: street! policeman, wlm t.,1,1 inc t.ial, ,!u' 11: i<I 1 instructed by the luspeelor o? Nuisa to take ino to the police station, ha previously searched every room in boardinghouse where I slop to lind When 1 l;oL to the polio station. J tohl that I was not the man they iv<pii Jsow, sir, I wish to ask" if t.lial. is f tiiey call justice in Oainaru. _ 1 was as no' questions by the policeman, dragged through the si reels in ami mv character to a. c> rtain ex gone. iM.y occupation is a hawker, mi will do a. S'Tions injury to my' tm for before, uo one could say anytl against my character ; hut now I s <al looked upon by in,-my with suspicion, think some inquiry .should be made the matter. M. Hot | The oilcnec against Mr. I'.ott, premi his account to be authentic, is a * gravy one. The world is too prmii look upon those who have been snbjci to even suspicion as black .sheep, andt are treated accordingly. If this kin< thing is to be tolerated' who aretherot may not lind themselves eiceroned thru our streets by a policeman who has n a mistake similar to that which appear have made in arresting Mr. Isot' Ei>. E. M.]