POLICE FORCE SCANDAL
LONDON OFFICER DISMISSED
LONDON, April 9
Allegations from a man now on bail have caused Detective Inspector Nicholls, fourth senior detective of the city police, to be dismissed from the service. Scotland Yard is investigating other allegations against city police. Scotland Yard! detectives are said to have interrupted a conversation in a city restaurant. They upset police, precedent by taking Nicholls to the Yard for questioning. Nicholls, who had been 18 years in the force, handled the famous Clarence Hatry and Lord Kylsant fraud 1 prosecutions. In 1930 Hatry was sentenced to 14 years’ penal servitude on charges of raising, with three fellow dictators, £759,000 by forged stock certificates.
Lord Kylsant was sent to prison for a year in August, 1931, for having published a false prospectus for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, of which he was chairman.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 14
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