SCOTLAND YARD INQUIRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1928, Page 3

SCOTLAND YARD INQUIRY.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service LONDON, June 13. The final stage has been reached in the Savidge inquiry, and counsel have delivered speeches. Mr Uirkett contended that the charge against the police*had not been sustained. John-, ston’s charges in the Commons had created a false impression. If Sir C. Money had entered the witness-box at the original hearing lie could have shed much light on the occurrences on the night of Miss Savidge’s return from Scotland Yard. He apparently wanted to let tho matter drop. His counsel, Schrett, adopted a similar attitude. s.Sir J. Simon put the public viewpoint when lie said every citizen must regard the case, if it happened, in the light that it might happen to their own daughter. What father would permit ’■a girl of twenty-two to be handed over to three police officers and taken to Scotland Yard. “I regard with abhorrence,” lie said, “ the practice which permits a chief constable or chief inspector to say 1 We wanted the gir to come to Scotland Yard and she was willing.’ It is important that if they are to have the power they possess they must act on- them properly. The inquiry is closed.