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THIRD DEGREE METHODS. By Telegraph-Press Afsociation-Coturizht Melbourno, January 29. The Superintendent of Police, in his report to the Chief Secretary, strongly protested against Mr. Prendergast's recent order prohibiting the application of the "Third Degree" in the examination of suspects. Ho contended that the order tends to the prevention 6f the detection of crime, and operates against the police in favour of the lawbreaker', ' •
The Chief Commissioner of Police recommends that the,mutter he left to tho discretion nnd intelligence of the officers engaged. '
Much indignation was recently expressed in Melbourne in connection" with the severo examination at the hands of the police authorities of the husband'end children of the woman Newman, whose death bv suicide was followed by sensational disclosures of baby-farming scandals. The husband was paid to have been subjected to an ordeal lasting- for 14 hours, whilo the children 'were detained for 12 hours. Last- nionth, the Chief Secretary (Mr. -Prendenrast) informed the Commissioner of Police that in future suspected nerwms must not be subjected fo the third-de«ree system, which, he pointed out,, really, amounts to torture.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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181MATTER FOR DISCRETION. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 7
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