HYDE PARK CASE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 9 June 1928, Page 15

HYDE PARK CASE.

THE POLICE ENQUIRY. MISS SAVIDGE COLLAPSES. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —BY BLECTBIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, June 7. At the police enquiry into the Savidge case, Mr Norman Birkett, K.C., who is appearing for the police, resumed his cross-examination regarding Miss Irene Savidge's statement. Miss Savidge objected to several portions of it and denied having made some of the statements attributed to her. Mr Birkett asked why she initialled the pages containing them. Miss Savidge: Because I felt awful at the end of the cross-examination and would have signed anything to get away. She described part of her statement regarding her attitude when with Sir Leo Chiozza Money on the seat in Hyde Park as all wrong. She said: "Collins suggested that and rattled it into me." When she said that that was not what happened, Detective-Inspector A. Collins said: "It really doesn't matter. Nobody else will read it." Miss Savidge, further cross-examined by Mr Birkett, said : "Inspector Collins kept taking my arm, saying, 'My dear Irene,' and promising I would not lose my character if I let things go down on the notes.''

Miss Savidge admitted that Inspector Collins read the statement page .by page before securing her signature, but added that she had been there five hours. They told her not to worry, because they were friends. She was glad to sign and to get away. Mr Birkett: You were conscious of everything included in the statement? Miss Savidge: Yes, arid no. Mr Birkett: A very good answer. Miss Savidge: When Inspector Collins was friendly he called me "My dear Irene," but when threatening he said, "Look here," and called me nothing. Miss' Savidge, who had been under examination for fiva and a half hours, collapsed outside the Court in a state of hysteria. "A Perfect Gentleman."

Her father was the next witness. He said that on the night of.the Scotland Yard episode he.found his wife distracted and his daughter in bed sobbing, beating the air, kicking her legs, and reiterating, "Why did they pick on. me, an innocent girl ?'' .Cross-examined, Mr Savidge said that he knew Of his daughter's friendship with Sir Leo Chiozza Money. He was vain 'enough to be; -pleased that his daughter was sufficiently interesting mentally to attract a man like- Sir Leo Chiozza Money. "My daughter .always told me he. was a perfect gentleman." Mrs Savidge, in evidence, said that her daughter came home exhausted and fell towards her, saying that two men had been trying to get her to say what kind of a girl she was. Mr Birkett cross-examined the mother, suggesting that Sir Leo Chiozza T.ioney's intervention was responsible for the change in her daughter's attitude, but the mother replied that Sir Leo Chiozza Money only pointed • out that her daughter was not compelled to go to Scotland Yard and that there was no need to undergo the ordeal. Irene always told witness beforehand if she were coming home late. Herbert Syrett, solicitor, in evidence, said that-Miss Savidgo's statement as read in Parliament was entirely- bona fide,'without.; suggestions -or Sir.•Leo Chiozza■'Money's interference: '. , '":'. S,ir Patrick Hastings - said that ms case was closed. '- The hearing was then adjourned. — Australian Press Association, •