"My motto has always been that a polico officer should be a prosecutor amd not a persecutor," said Sub-Inspector Eccles when being farewelled ait tho Inverca/rgill Courthouse last week. "He is placed in a position of great trust and should not use it as he might use a baton."
Yarious suggestions to the police in order to secure /the "brutal murderer otf the girl Tirt9chke at Melbourne were made through the press of that city. One suggestion was that -at a given signal every adult in the Comm omwealrth should point an accusing finger toward Melbourne, and for a short space of time "will" that the murderer should hand himself over to the police. The correspondent pointed out that if everyone said aloud, "G-ive yourself up amd confess," an irresistible tidal wave of electricity would be directed toward the murderer. There were many who favoured this experiment, ond an effort was being made to arrange for uniformity of action (says the Sydney "Sun").
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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1922, Page 3
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