"TAINTED."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 9

"TAINTED."

POLICE EVIDENCE. PROSECUTOR'S VIEW. DISMISSAL. OF CASE. (Special—By Air Man.) BRIGHTON, August 20. Mr. H. S. R. Rogers, solicitor prosecuting for the police at Brighton, said he considered pome of the police evidence "tainted with suspicion." He asked the magistrates to dismiss jthe case if they thought a substantial lease had not been made out on other evidence. The magistrates dismissed the case. Thomas Joseph Evans, aged 38. was accused of stealing a £4 parcel of laun;dry from a Brighton hotel. | Rupert Fox, a waiter, wlu- at the j time of the alleged offence lived at .Marlborough Street, Brighton, f-aid that lon July 26 he was wakened by a tappiping on the window. H? opened the j window and Evars (a friend of hist j,threw a parcel into the room, sayinrr, s i"l will call for it to-morrow at seven Jo'eloek." [. Later Fox explained to the police how pjhe got the parcel. "It was arranged by ifthe police," he added, "that if Evans -'should call for the parcel it should be e'given to him only if hi called after e eight o'clock, when the police would be inear." a! Mr. Rogers then addressed the Bench. said: — ej "I must say I consider some of ffc© rl evidence seems to be tainted with susd pieion. We have lieanl that the (-'arrangement made by the police with Fox to put Kvan- in ">--<\--'on of t.the paivel. That, to my mind. was h mi'-t improper. :e "It seems to mo that the evidence it regarding the pos-ession of the pared lejmust he dismissed. I do not think ttj* elmatter has been carried through dthe scrupulous faiiueis that ftiehonid ifire -feeen." —' /