London’s Police.
SCRUPULOUS FAIRNESS. EX-INSPECTOR GAOLED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, July 16. An ex-inspector, named Syme, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for libelling Sir Edward Henry, Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, by alleging blackmail and tyranny. Syme conducted his own defence, flouting Justice Coleridge and the jury, and alleging that the jury was packed. Justice Coleridge said the case di»closed the highest authorities’ scrupulous fairness/ and untiring care in dealing with complaints. No police administration in the world would emerge freer .from suspicion.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 73, 17 July 1914, Page 5
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89London’s Police. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 73, 17 July 1914, Page 5
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