ROGUERY AMONGST THE POLICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 334, 28 December 1880, Page 2

ROGUERY AMONGST THE POLICE.

—'""" (Prom a Home paper. 1 . Eecent trials have driven p?oj-letp conclusion that our police fore* ij.\a state . ©f rottenness. been shown to be bribable. TluyWtve been guilty ot entering into conspirV * 4 s with the vilest criminals in manufacture charges of crime against ! | innocent persons— all for the hake of ■ the ' blood money ' which in a modified . ■ form is paid to them when they gain' a ,■ ■ conviction. And this week another , I painful example of the blackguardism of ; »l some member? of the force is afforded .by ■ the story told before Mr Bridge in" thfi ■ fl Soutlrwark Police Court on Wednesday On that occasion a private delective, named Walker, to whose inte/ilkjent '■■ exertions we owe the hideous wrong, introduced to the magis-j fl trate two men, named Frost and Smith. Two years ago they were sentenced j for burglary, and yet they were fectlv innocent all the time. entirely through the abominable jury of the police that they convicted, and of course during ' reign of Mr Cross, when it was dered criminal to hint a doubt as policeman's virtue,little or nothingcouj^^^H ba done fortlieni. But when the-fa'cWT^^B wore laid before Sir William who app irently cherishes no over ing b.lief in the purity of the police,j the men were at once pardoned liberated . Lot it be noticed, that the wrong here does rr>fc consist in the fact that Frostland suffered the horrible torture qf servitude for two years when "they were innocent of all crime, though that is bad] enough. It appears that one of them at least is a sort of victim of brumal police persecution, and has so" a long time They have made a 'set'. him and hounded him tor years—indeed this is the second time he has been con- ' victed of a crime of which he was proved to be innocent. What we ask, is going to be done for these ? They aredestitute, and they have been wronged - '<* in a most horrible manner by ' the authorites.' Is no compensation lobe given them for the ' burglary' thstHms " ~,? been committed by those wl>o stoleTWray £ two years of their livas, and, after af course of systematic persecution, doomed, g>fi them on false charges to the torture ot! penal servitude ?