CONFIDENCE SACRED.
BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE. POLICE INTERROGATION ILLEGAL. (Received 11, 12.50 p.m.) London, Sept. 10. That the police should not interrogate wives regarding their husbands’ alleged crimes without the husbands’ consent, was the opinion strongly expressed by tho Recorder of London, Sir Ernest E. Wild, in giving judgment in which a Post Office official was charged with theft. The evidence showed that the official’s wife was arrested for shoplifting and was found to possess a number of postal notes. When questioned as to whence she had got them she confessed that they had been stolen by her husband, who later acquiesced in Tier confession. Although he sentenced the husband to a year’s imprisonment the Recorder declared that interrogation of wives without the husbands’ consent was absolutely contrary to law, and officialdom should be taught this. It was important that confidential relationship between husband and wife should be retained than that crime be detected.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 6
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156CONFIDENCE SACRED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 6
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