METHODS OF POLICE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 May 1928, Page 7

METHODS OF POLICE.

HYDE PARK CASE.

SCOPE OF INQUIRY.UNITED PRESS A S SOCI ATI ON—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) r 7 .V :! (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION—UNITED SERVICE.) LONDON, May 21. Messrs Hopkins and Morris have table! an amendment to the motion moved bv Sir William Joynson-Hicks deleting the words referring to the oniluc-t of the prosecution and the evidence in the Hyde Park case, in which •i charge of indecency was laid against Sir Leo Chiozza Money, this limiting the inquiry strictly to the police action : n taking the girl in the case (Miss Savage) to Scotland Yard. A number of the Opposition fear that the mater of the interrogation of Scotland Yard may otherwise be ohscrured bv admass of details regarding the Hvde Park incident. Moreover, v public inquiry might produce crimnal proceedings for perjury. 7

\ OTHER- WOMAN’S COMPLAINT.

LONDON, May 20. Mrs Browne,, whose husband was sentenced to death for the Essex murder, in a startling letter to Reynolds’s “Sunday News” on the Hyde Park case, says that on the day .following Browne’s arrest Scotland Yard men took her to the station at 10.30 in the arming and kept her till 7 o’clock t night and questioned her hour, after hour. She had nothing to eat or drink. The child accompanying her cried bitterly: “Mummy, can’t I have something to eat?” - -- t

The police then provided tea and rough sandwiches. She alleges that the questioning was unceasing, the olice saying: “You must be aware of our husband’s movements and what he was doing.” She was tired and worn out when -Ilowed to go at night. She said anything she was so fatigued.