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V ■ ' MEANS FOR OBTAINING EVIDENCE. STRONG REMARKS BY RECORDER. BY CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Sent. 11, 12.50 p.m. . LONDON, Sept. 10. l hat • the police should not interrd"a te wives regarding; a husband’s Alleged crime without the husband’s consent was the opinion strongly expressed by Recorder IVild. in givihg judgment in a. ease *ih which i£ post office official was charged with theft. The evidence showed that the official’s wile was arrested for shoplifting, and was found to possess a number of postal notes. When questioned as to when she had got them she confessed that they had been stolen by her husband. who later acquiesced in her confession. Although he sentenced the husband to a year’s imprisonment, the recorder declared that the interrogation of wives without the husband’s consent w*as a.bsplutqly contrary to law and officialdom should be taught this. It. was more important that the confidential relationship between husband aijd wife should lie retained than that a crime should lie detected.—Aus.'N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 September 1924, Page 9
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166QUITE IMPROPER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 September 1924, Page 9
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