JUDGE ASSAILS POLICE
WAYS WITH WITNESSES SAVIDGE CASE CITED (Australian Press Association) LONDON, Monday. In the course of a speech in London Judge L, A. AtherleyJones, of the Mayor’s City of London Court since 1913, attacked the police. He condemned their practice of extracting evidence from arrested persons by interrogation. His Honour said that if accused persons volunteered to make statements they should be left alone to write them out. Prosecutions for indecency should not be brought unless corroboration by the police was available. The practice of sending policemen in evening dress to buy champagne at night clubs savoured of the Continental agent-provocateur method. The proper procedure in the case of Miss Savidge would have been to have written and made an appointment and to have obtained her statement, not to drive up to her employer’s office and carry her off to Scotland Yard. Some of the newspapers recall the activity of Judge (then Mr.), Ather-ley-Jones in the Cash case in 1887, when a girl was wrongly charged with being a street-walker. The Ministry of the day refused the demand of Mr. Atherley-Jones, who was Liberal M.P. for Durham at the time, for an inquiry. As a result it was defeated and then granted the inquiry.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280612.2.94
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 9
Word Count
206JUDGE ASSAILS POLICE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in