HORRIBLE ACT AT AUCKLAND

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 848, 10 August 1871, Page 3

HORRIBLE ACT AT AUCKLAND

(From the " Herald.") A moat horrible brutality has been perpetrated at Snortland —such an "atrocity aa One must believo coUld -olily have entered the mind of a Mad" fiend, testead of a G-overnment officer. ' iho _ following petition, addressed to thd Superintendent of Auckland, explains the facts of the case. _ The ihemdrial of the 'undersigned ■fishermen, boatmen, and sailors, df the port of Thames, showetlv:— That on the 28th day of Maiy last, three men were put in a boat which was wrecked &t the mouth of the river Thames; that cine df the trffen hained George Green was 're&JUed frdm the wreck after having bee"n clinging to it for ten hours. The dthet tford *taen Were drowned. That oft 'the said •George Green, the survivor, landing at the wharf at ShOrtland\ the police. took him to the station houSfe, where be walked, assisted by one man on each side of him, in his Wet clothes as "be then t was; that this was done despite the earnest entreaties of his friends that they should be allowed to take him home, and. administer 'Buch comforts and stimulants as Were absolutely necessary in the 'case of the unfortunate man, who had been for ten hours in the water. That Mr Sub-Inspector Bullen replied to the request of Green's friends to take him away at once. "When I have 'done with him you may have him." That Green "was thus kept for three'quarters of &n hour, and that when he was ultimately allowed to go to his 'own %hkre,'hea!r the Caledonialn Hotel, : Sbortland, he had not proper medical •fitteridarice and Hvas not properly looked after. That within two or three houre 'Green began, to sink ;rapidly, ; and he was then 'removed to the Thaiilbs Hospital Vhero he died in a few h(jtfrs. That no inquest was held upon 'the 'body of the said George 'Green, hor was there aby inquiry made 'into the manner df his dea'th. That Ve, the being from the 'nature of onr liable to the same calamity at any hour, therefdre 'pray that you will ift oitcO cause an 'inquiry to be made •> and ff netffessary the body to be exhumed 'Knd an'in'queat held thereupon, or td take such other steps as you may deem necessary, that justice be done "upon those with whom the fault Of the loss df the life of George Green tiaay be.