Have you ever tried to assist him?
he had not been my friend for many years he would have been out of the police force years ago. have always tried to be perfectly fair with him and to be straightforward in every report I have made, Dos perfectly, ly say and 1 gave him the benefit of every doubt. I can perfectly seriously say
Capt. Barrett said that, early this year, when he wrote recommending that' the Council's decision be not reconsidered, he had nothing particularly in' mind, except that he understood the decision not renew Mr, Beatty's contract would not have been affected by anything said. \Atso he thought it to be in the interests of the force that Mr. Beatty should leave. On one occasion "he interviewed Major Hilton-Johnson and Gen, Mac. paghten, to see if there was some way out of it without resorting 10 [drastic measures.
Cross-examined—You know that Harris, on your behalf, took out 'a summons to get this action struck out in Chamber without coming into Courtt—I believe 20, yes, Do you know that'he argued for three-quarters of an hour to est abolish the proposition that nothing you wrote about anybody in the Police, however: malicious, would ex-ose you to any action?—1 have no knowledge of that argument, Was it done without your instruc: tions?—I have no knowledge, Mr, Wing asked if witness considered it was charitable, counsel had said, to charge Mr, tty with drunkenness when such charge had not actually, been Mr. Harri protested that he did not put it that way, He suggested it was a charitable view to take, the other view being that Mr, Beatty not a gentleman, because gentleman would behave like that if not drunk.
Capt. Barrett have had nine years experience of Beatty and I know him from A to,% drunk sober. I have a right' to my opine fon. it may have been wrong, but doubt it, What annoyed me more than anything was that he had gone an Officers' Mess and disgraced himself and brought dishonour on the police force. I told him that 1 was going to allow a previous friendship to stand in the way of duty. It was a remark made several times previously, but without effect,
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