A CONSTABLE'S EXPLOITS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1915, Page 7

A CONSTABLE'S EXPLOITS.

ins v,\i:ii:i; i:.\p!:iukm■■]•>■. A man. without a e.rev hair, wearing natural 'uetii, an alert clcanJUihofu. Taraiutki, savs the'"* lie has just retir.-,! f ri ,. M |j l( . \ ( ,„. z ,,. ( . teen, so you ~„. h ; s ;,„,." enviable William Kelly u....! t„ b> well k„rwi, in Auckland. 1„.,, !; . ( . ;,, ~,,.,!,,,. (hlVs )l( , was tiir „„ly r,.„,:Mt<Ml constable in Au.-klaml, 1,11,1, ■.■.■;■: l, i,i s 1,,-ioht eye. Ili'slung vaOre an 1 icgh-u-pping ,-ha,gcr, '»' was tin- adored of all the ]:N-e-, 'll,. lias i....t been a i„ ■,.-, !,:,„. .1.-c-orati,,,, on a horse. .-Ua.:-. :!,. ~; :ls .]„„.„ at ~„. uiuera, tl„. M) ;i of 'a' tain Kelly. ~f hi-. onVcr having come to »„• Z ,,,ia,„l on tli«- .-'.all ot tin. j,v ; ,t pro-Consul Sir f.corge <;|..y. <.;,] Aiick!ai.der. s may rc-/no-mber Hie case ..Mlahn-. the aWml.-r who got a way -.v it Ji £t;iU)(Ht of gou.i Auckland money. A i-.-ivaid of L"->l)(l was offered f,,,- I,;, arret. , t „..,,. s;(i(| (bat Daley ha,) vanished to Sydney, v (...stall)],. .KoTly had other idea's. TJ e ran Daley to earth in tr.e Ma ka ran Bush and gathered in Ihe x2l)i\ Then (here was til,, Waikume'e murder. Scott an English re-niitame m an, murdered Thompson, also a n'lmittaii.e man. There was a romantic love story in this •,« well as a tragedy, u was on the'ovrdence of Constat.le Kelly, who produced the poison, that Sc-.tl was found gu.ljy 0! murder.

When John M,Keh>, of Hobmti Street, shot one Reward in four pla.es with a revolver, lie escaped to the Waitakere liangcs. C, m .,ta!,le Kelly tracked him down. When the murderer heard the jingle of Kelly's (quipment, he tired number five, possibly at the coir-taihV, and number six at himself, fatally. He also arrested the, famous Casparini, escaped convict,.a. little job in which a Freeman's Bay shop and a cigar were important clues, and there is also to his credit the arrest of Louis i'aye. who fatally stabbed Mary Ann Long, a case that was of painfi! hiure-t, in wl.lc.i l'aye wa„ ultimately reloa-ed. During the waterside, strike. Keliv was se;;t from Taranaki to Wellington to take charge of mounted police. \U- is proud of the fact diet he was oeort to the Karl of l.ivermr.l. when, i',.;- t1,. 2 first time in Xew Zealand history, a Coventor oliiciully visited I'arihaka. Mr. Kelly is a mrw.her of ,i. highly distinguished military family. He' i 3 a cousin of Field-M'ars'.a! V -.:r .John D. I'. French, (UUI, C.C.V.U.. K.C.M.t! ] Commander-in-Chief of lI.M. ] ones in France (Colonel loth Hussars and Colonelra Chief of the floyal IrMi Regiment). He is a. nephew, of the lat- CJniernl Sir Richard Dennis Kelly, K.C.8., .-. liimou-: Crimean ollicer, and' also x nephew of th late General John S\v'.)i!ioi;ine