DEFENCES OF CONSTABLE SCOIT.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2910, 13 June 1878, Page 2

DEFENCES OF CONSTABLE SCOIT.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) i Sib, —" Another Citizen " has taken upon himself the, no doubt, pleasant task of defending the strongest. " His " experience of the Force " seems to hare bean the rererse of pleasant. Well, lam sorry for him. ■ For my own part, I bear our B.M. no personal ill will; my object was simply to _ defend what I consider to bo the righ». I cannot Bee the justice of Oapb. Fraser's remarks, when saying that he " doubted Constable Scott j"." that he was in tlie habit of aaiaulting people;" The constable had be' y acquitted by the proper tribunal— - authority no doubt as impartial and oompe- | t rnt to judge of the matter as Capt. Fraser,' ' who admitted on the-Benob last week that he did not know the legel powers of the police. The attack w! therefore unjust and entirely oit of place. If a person lias been charged with'an oifence and acquitted, or has suffered such pudishment as the law allows, no one is justified in ctustiug such offenra or charge in, his teeth for erer afterwards, and surely a saagistr/ must know that much. Your correspondent also refers to some case that was " the talk of the town." Don't know. what be means. I6m not in the confidence of the pol'ce, neither am I r.lways conversant with the town talk, so cannot answer that question. As for being able to judge of the efficiency of the police, I fchiuk it is an easy matter to any one who has lived in the plara for some years, and I know that the majority of the public share my opinion.—l am, &c., A Citizen.