News (Adelaide S.A.) Saturday 20th August 1927
Constable Wrong
Australian Arrested
Scotland Yard Apologises
London August 19th.
Scotland Yard has apologised to Mr. Chalmers Kearney an Australian engineer and inventor of the Kearney Railway.
A Constable arrested Mr. Kearney near his residence when he was enjoying an evening stroll and charged him with loitering with intent to commit a felony.
The Constable laid a further charge of drunkenness although Mr. Kearney has only one drink of intoxicating liquor a year a glass of Port on Christmas Day.
The Station Inspector refused to accept the charges made by the Constable who has been reprimanded.
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