RUN IN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2332, 7 September 1880, Page 3

RUN IN.

Concerning the recent arrest of three Auckland tradesmen for being on board the barque Glimpse, the “ Herald ” gives the following particulars :—The men were employed by Messrs Stone Brothers, the ship’s agents, to execute some repairs to a stove on board the ship immediately, as the vessel was to proceed to sea next morning. The captain avers, however, he was not made acquainted with this fact, and finding strange men on board his ship he feared they had felonious intentions, and gave them in charge. The men explained their object and gave their names and addresses. The constable raised some objection to taking them into custody, but the captain insisted, and they were inarched up to the lock-up and kept in custody all night. Of course next day the police declined to prosecute, and the captain bad to make the best lie could of bis ill-advised action. After the men wore taken to the police station Mr Brown requested that bis son, whose place of business is a few doors above the “Herald” office, might be informed of bis arrest, in order that steps might be taken for bis release, but no attention was paid to bis request, as also one that a message might be sent to bis family at bis own place of business in Victoria street, where he has been established for sixteen years. Atb o’clock in the morning, bis son, Mr Chas. Brown, wondering why bis father bad not returned home from the Glimpse, proceeded down town to make inquiries to relievo the anxious fears of Ins mother, who thought that some accident hud possibly befallen her husband, and it was while the young man was thus engaged that he accidentally heard of Ids father’s incarceration in the lock-up. If a respectable and wellknown tradesman of sixteen years standing can thus be “ run in” at the beck of any choleric skipper, who has temporarily “ lost his head,” and at sixty years of age be left to cool bis heels for the night in a police cell, while his family, within live minutes’ walk of the police station, arc kept in utter ignorance of Lis arrest, there is nobody safe.