THE CASE OF BARNARD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4499, 17 August 1893, Page 3

THE CASE OF BARNARD.

What Really Took Place,

The lollowiti"U8 from tbc last issue : of the Greytnw^Gtandard " From all information available at present it would appear that the creditors in ' the estate of Joseph Barnard, late of Grey- , town, have suffered a loss of several . hundreds oi pounds, and that consequently great individual hardship has been inflicted upon many hard-working men, entirely through the over-caution, eupiness, or procrastination of the Resident Magistrate and the police. Here is a dilemma with three horns, and wo should like to see the magis- . trate and thepolice requested by the Minister ot Justice to lift themselves oil either or all if they can. Upon the Greytown police ' there can be no reflection. Tho local constable gave all tho advice and , tendered all the assistance that he - could. The fault, it fault there be, lies at V Masterton. On Friday two Greytown creditors went post haste to that town, and one of them applied for on immediate warrant to arrest Barnotjjjtouckland. Mr Hut-1 ■_ ohison, 8.U., homSJr, appeared to want a ' great deal of evidence to convince bim that ' he was justified in issuing such a warrant, ' {aid it took him from about eleven o'clock : on Friday until nearly twelve on Saturday to decide upon the matter. Then tho war- ; rant was ordered to bo issued. Then, we • are informed, the tfastcrton Sergeant of '<■' Police waited w'ih the warrant in his hand while a drunk was run in, instead of sending it off at once. Tho warrant was finally telegraphed Eomo time after twelve o'clock on Saturday." Our Greytown contemporary has

been somewhat misled as'.o facts of

the above case, which are briefly as i followsOn the Friday morning, t ,on the suggestion of certain creditors, who bad obtained all possi. ■' bleinformation and lad taken legal , ad rice, a warrant out at i Mat tenon for jWpßamard'e arreit / > st New Plymouth, where it was eup- ' posed be bad madA for en riult Ut «■ Auckland. The evening train and \ the steamer Takapuna were botb met and searched, but Barnard w.s notou either, On this being ascertained, ll , was decided to take Ptffftdinga in * bankruptcy, and to obtaiif anoiher 11 warrant for Auckland, This was *, done with all possible expedition, and W he assured that there is no blame attachable to the police, Resident §& Magistrate or anj person connected SK, with the matter §ll l It 18 now fiup t osed that, Barnard Ket'fe'SOhed Waitara by sojuo. coastal JgSpptrtmer—possibly the Gaiiloch -and fij&jnade Lis way from thence to Auckend on reaching that city being ffigkmiid recogmeed by a Maoterton alaimed and perthe firemen or .tailors

[on tho 'Frisco bnct to Btow him away. Thus lie successfully eluded the detectives.

Wo arn informed (hat the creditors are now moving to have Barnard arrested immediately on his arrival at 'Fiisco,