THE HOUNDSDITCH TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1086, 27 March 1911, Page 5

THE HOUNDSDITCH TRAGEDY.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY SET UP. By Telegraph—Press Association— Oopyrieh (Rec. March 26, 5 5 p.m.) London, March 25. The Home Office has appointed n Com mission to investigate the police state ments concerning the arrest of Morrisor and to consider compensation claims hi Sydney Street property-owners. A . CONSTABLE'S EVIDENCE. Daring the trial Mr. Justice Darlim made a searching inquiry into the treat ment of Morrison by the police. . Lon stable Greaves gave evidence that in wrote to Morrison's counsel in the inter ests of justice, detailing what had oc curred at the police station. He, said h< had hesitated to speak earlier as he du not desire to implicate his colleagues Constablo Greaves, in cross-examination admitted that he had twice been sus ponded, firstly for complaining of his ser eeant, and secondly for making supposec untrue statements to the superintendent He was thereafter transferred to anothei division. Mr. Justice Dayling, in sum ming up. endorsed the jury's prptesi against the indiscriminate snap-shottint of those engaged in the trial. It wai far graver when people were permittee to pliotograuh prisoners who had not vel been identified by those having Vtstifie< against them. Such photographs misrhi be seen by possibly uncertain witnesses inducing them to swear to identificalioi which otherwise they may not have beer unable to do. Morrison had been thus photoeraphed when merely remanded on suspicion. The practice ivas obviousb injurious to the prosecution, and' wacalculated to frustrate the whole ends of justice. Mr. Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, in reply to a question, said the question of snap-shotting at trials was under consideration.