SCOTLAND YARD’S WAYS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 9

SCOTLAND YARD’S WAYS

Murderer’s Wife Complains STARTLING LETTER TO PAPER Disquieting Reveiations (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 1.10 p.m LONDON, Sunday. MRS. BROWNE, whose husband was sentenced to death for the murder of Constable Gutteridge, writes a startling letter to “Reynold’s Sunday News” following the statement made by Miss Savage. Mrs. Browne declares that the day following Brown’s arrest officials from Scotland Yard took her to the Station at 10.30 in the morning and she remained there until seven o’clock at night.

She was questioned, she says, hour after hour and was given nothing to eat or drink. Her child, who accompanied her, criew bitterly, “Mummy can’t I have something to eat.” The police then provided tea and some rough sandwiches. She alleges that the officers questioned her unceasingly, saying; “You must be aware of your husband’s movements. What was he doing?” She was tired and worn out when she was at last allowed to go, and might have said anything she was so fatigued, the woman adds. SOMETHING AMISS “MISS SAVAGE’S NOT ONLY CASE” ALL BRITAIN DISTURBED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. The authorities of Scotland Yard are virtually in the docfc before public opinion. The whole nation is disturbed at the sensational charges against its administration.

Although it is universally admitted that the London policemen are the finest body of men in the world, Scotland Yard, as the outcome of several recent events, is definitely suspect, and there is a disturbing feeling throughout Britain that there is something amiss in its methods contrary to the British sense of freedom and justice. The entire Press is agreed that the charges involve the freedom of citiens, and they must be judged from that aspect. They emphatically declare that the inquiry promised by the Home Office must be public and comprehensive, and in no sense a retrial of Miss Savage and Sir Leo Cliiozza Money, who were honourably acquitted. The action of the police in taking Miss Savage from her work to the Yard is only one issue. The papers says that even if Miss Savage’s statement is denied in toto, no amount of official denials can clear Scotland Yard of the great and growing cloud of suspicion that hangs over it. The Press asks for how long and in what number of cases Scotland Yard has been thus behaving. It is inconceivable that the case of Miss Savage is the only one. Three of the principal officials concerned are Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner of Police,' Sir Arhibald Bodkin, the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Ml*. G. Nicholls, the chief inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department.