CONSTABLE CHARGED
SAID TO HAVE TAKEN BRIBE “RARE AND UNUSUAL” Press Association GISBORNE, Today. Tlie Supreme Court opened this morning before Air. Justice Blair, who commented on tlie light calendar and on the bribery charge against a constable which he said was very rare and unusual. “I may say,” he added, “that I cannot recollect having heard of a case similar to this. These cases are so rare that it reflects great credit on the Police Force.”
The case concerned the alleged acceptance of a bribe by a constable to quash some proceedings in which a man had been accused of breaking and entering, the constable accepting £o, a portion to be given to the Dalmatian whose place was entered and a portion retained by the constable. He was also charged with obtaining money by false pretences by representing to the person accused of the breaking and entering that he would be fined £3. The Grand Jury returned true bills against Wiremu Turei, of Hauiti, charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and indecent assault: against Vernon Winfield Linkhorn, charged with theft and against Topia Rotohiko, charged with accepting a bribe.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 906, 25 February 1930, Page 11
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195CONSTABLE CHARGED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 906, 25 February 1930, Page 11
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