POLICE METHODS CRITICISED.
PROLONGED EXAMINATION. TAXI DRIVER'S EIGHT HOURS. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHSISTCHURCH, this day. The methods of the police in investigating the Burvrood murder case are being strongly criticised here. In connection with the examination of a taxi driver at the police station for eight a correspondent. "British Fair writes to the "Star/" suggesting that this calls for very serious investigation. The writer says: "Tlie police liave the right to examine and ask questions of any person who is suspected of a crime, but it is ineredible that Legitimate questioning could last over a period of eight hours. One can hardly believe that this could occur in any country in the world other than in America. Doubtless the answer of the police will be the usual one that the taxi driver was under no compulsion to answer, and eoald have left the station at any time he wished. This is true if the man knew his legal rights, bnt surely it is obvious that he did not know the position, because it is impossible to believe that a man would stay at the station for eight hours because U Bked it"
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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POLICE METHODS CRITICISED.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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