THE REPRIEVE OF STINIE MORRISON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 5

THE REPRIEVE OF STINIE MORRISON.

HOME SECRETARY EXPLAINS, By Telccraph-Press AESOciation-Oopyrietat London, April 18. Replying to a question in the lijusc of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill, Homo Secretary, said tliat the reprieve of Stinio Morrison, sentenced to death for the murder on Claphain Common, on New Year's Day, of Leon 13cron, a French Jew, did not imply any. doubt regarding tho prisoner's guilt or the Tightness of the verdict. •■■,.,.■.... .

During the trial Mr. Justice Darling made a searching inquiry into the treatment of Morrison by the police, and in summing up he endorsed the jury's protest against the indiscriminate'snap-shot-ting of those engaged in'the trial. It was far graver when people were permitted to photograph prisoners who had not yet been identified by those having testified against them. Such photographs might be seen by possibly uncertain witnesses, .inducing them to swear to identification which otherwise they may not havo been unable to do. Morrison had been thus photographed when merely remanded on suspicion. The pracfico was obviously injurious to the prosecution, and was calculated to frustrate the- whole ends of justice.