RATTLED ME INTO IT, MISS SAVIDGE SAYS AT INQUIRY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6631, 9 June 1928, Page 8

RATTLED ME INTO IT, MISS SAVIDGE SAYS AT INQUIRY

Reason Why She Put Initials to Statement YARD’S METHODS UNDER EXAMINATION United Press Association —By Electrii Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 7. The inquiry into Scotland Yard methods was resumed. Mr. W. N. Birkett, KG. for tho Police, resumed his cross-examination of Miss Savidge Ho asked why she had initialled the pages containing statements which she denied having made. Miss Savidge: “Because I felt awful at the end of the cross-examina-tion and would have signed anything to get away.” She described part of the statement regarding her attitude with Sir Leo Chiozza Money on the scats in Hyde Park :rs all wrong. She said that Inspector Collins had suggested that. “He rattled it into me,” she said. When she said, “That is not what happened,” Inspector ■ Collins said: “It really doesn’t matter, nobody else will read it.”

Miss Savidge said that Inspector Collins kept taking her arm, saying, “My dear Irene,” and promising that she would not lose her character if she let things go down on the notes. Miss Savidge admitted that Inspector Collins read the statement page by page before her signature was put to it; but added that she had been there for five hours. They told her not to worry because they were friends. She was glad to sign to get away. _

Mr. Birkctt: “You were conscious of everything included in the statement?” Miss Savidge: “Yes, and no.” Mr. Birkctt: “A very good answer.” Miss Savidge: “When Inspector Collins was friendly he called mo ‘My dear Irene,’ but when he was threatening he said, ‘Look here,’ and called mo nothing.” Miss Savidge, w-ho had been under examination for five and a-half hours, collapsed outside the Court from hysteria.

Her father was the next witness. He said that on tho night of the Scotland Yard episode he found his wife distracted and found his daughter if bed sobbing, and beating the air, kicking her legs, and reiterating, “Why did they pick on me, an innocent girl?” Cross-examined, Mr. Savidge said that he knew of his daughter's friendship with Sir Leo Chiozza Money. Ho was vain enough to bo pleased his daughter -was sufficiently interesting mentally to attract a man like Sir Leo Chiozza Money. “My daughter always told me that.he was a perfect gentleman,” said the witness. Mrs. Savidge gave evidence that her daughter came home exhausted and fell toward her, saying that two men had been trying to get her to say what kind of a girl she was. Mr. Birkctt cross-examined tho mother, suggesting that Sir Leo Chiozza Money’s intervention was responsible for the change in her daughter’s attitude, but tho mother replied that Sir Leo Chiozza Money only pointed out to her daughter that she was not compelled to go to Scotland Yard, and that there was no need to undergo the ordeal. Irene always told her beforehand if she was coming home late. Herbert Syrett, solicitor, gave evidence that Miss Savidge’s statement rend in Parliament was entirely bona fide and without any suggestions of Sir Leo Chiozza Money’s interference. Sir Patrick Hastings, for Miss Savidge, said that his case had closed, and the inquiry adjourned.