CASE DISMISSED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 9

CASE DISMISSED.

COSTS AGAINST POLICE

CHARGE AGAINST SIR CHIOZZA MONEY.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 2.

Following Sir' Chiozza Money’s evidence, the magistrate stopped! the case, which he dismissed, awarding £lO 10s costs against the police. Sir Chiozza Money gave evidence that he had known Miss Savage for 18 months. She was of unquestionable reputation, and was engaged to be married. They frequently went to theatres together. On the night mentioned 1 in the charge they had dinner in the West End, walked to Hyde Park, and had been sitting in adjoining chairs for 10 minutes when a plain clothes policeman appeared and suddenly made the charge. They were roughly handled en route to a police station.

The magistrate said that the explanations of the police why they had failed to obtain available evidence failed to satisfy him. Any ■way, he could not help thinking that in such cases the police in charge of stations should send reports to headquarters for the consideration of the commissioners. If that had been done the .present case would not have been brought. [An earlier message stated that Sir Leo Chiozza Money. the well-known financier, and Miss- Irene Savage, had been charged with indecency in Hyde Park. Sir Leo, at the Marlborough Court, denied the police allegations.]