KILLERS AT LARGE
UNSOLVED MURDERS
MYSTERIES OF 24 WOMEN.
While the public cry out for the arrest of the killers of innocent girls, the long list of unsolved murders is steadily mounting,A ..terrible type„of:,,giHslayer has arisen—the murderer who covers his trail so well that Scotland Yard is baffled in all attempts to bring his to justice.
During the last ten months nine «tul- - have evaded arrest.. In the last three years there have been 22 killings t'ha£ have remained mysteries. Since 1919 there have been 34, and 24 have been girls or women.
Police Restricted in Examinations
: What, then, is the police reply when faced with these unsolved crimes P It is very simple. They hold that certain regulations issued by the Home Office hamper their investigations and bind their hands. At one time, it is claimed, Scotland Yard could say that the number of unsolved crimes was almost at vanishing point, because officers had a wide scope in their examinations of persons who were implicated in some way. They could question without restraint.
But the findings of the Royal Commission on the subject altered all that. To-day a suspect cannot be forced to give an account of his movements. All he has to do is to remain silent, and if the police cannot find evidence from any l other source they are up against a blank wall.
The result is that every detective engaged on criminal investigation has to stepwarily. If he makes a. charge and cannot support it his career is injured and his chance of promotion may suffer.
But there is another aspect to this matter which seriously affects the public. Those who criticise the police failure to arrest murderers hold that, with entire freedom to question and examine, the procedure might easily partake of third degree methods. But where shall the police find those cowardly murderers of women and girls? They are a species apart from the ordinary murderer. They are sex adventurers, the most cunning, the most elusive, the most slim miscreants among criminals
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 3
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