SCOTLAND YARD
MANY LONDON MURDERS UNSOLVED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Oct. 27. Newspapers are drawing; attention t.> the growing list of unsolved murders in London Six of the minders committed here during the first nine months of this year are "still unsolved. Nine of the - last year’s murders are still marked as “undiscovewd.” Scotland Yard, the most highly-or-ganised police department in flu world, is passing through its blackest. days since the days of “Jack the Ripper.” The chief cause of the failure to discover the murderers is generally ascribed to the restrictions put on detectives by the report of the recent Royal Commission on the police powers proceedings. T,t. is po inf ted nog, that Scotland Yard’s representatives liave grown over-cautious as tho result of that Commission’s report. The “Daily Express” urges Lord Bjtag (head of the police) to give attention to both the personnel and the methods at Scotland Yard. The paper adds“ Scotland Yard is losing its prestige, not only with the public, hut with the provincial police.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1930, Page 3
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