ALLEGES BULLYING TACTICS BY 'YARD’

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6616, 22 May 1928, Page 7

ALLEGES BULLYING TACTICS BY 'YARD’

Mrs Browne Says Had No Respite When There

QUESTIONED UNCEASINGLY

FOR HOURS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 20 Mrs Browne, in a startling letter to “Reynold's Sunday News’’ on the Miss Savage case, says that on the day following Browne’s arrest, Scotland Yard men took her to the station at 10.30 in the morning and kept her till seven at night. They questioned her hour after hour and let her have nothing to eat or drink.

A child accompanying her cried bitterly, “mummy, can’t I have something to eat.” The police then provided tea and rough sandwiches. She alleged the questioning was uncanny, the police saying. “You must bo aware of your husband’s movements and what he is doing.”

She was tired and worn out when she was allowed to go at night and said she was unable to say anything as she was so fatigued.

LEST MISS SAVAGE INQUIRY BECOME ENTANGLED IN , DETAILS.

A.P.A. and United Service. Received Monday 5.5 p.m. ' LONDON, May 21. In the House of Commons Messrs Hofkins and Morris tabled an amendment to the motion moved by Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, re the 'Miss Savage’ inquiry, deleting the words referring to the conduct of the prosecution and the evidence in the Hyde Park case, thus limiting the inquiry strictly to the police action in taking the girl to Scotland Yard. A number of the Opposition fear the matter of interrogation of Scotland Yard otherwise would be obscured by a mass of details regarding the Hyde Park ease. Moreover, the public inquiry might prejudice criminal proceedings for perjury.