MURDERER'S WIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19952, 22 May 1928, Page 12

MURDERER'S WIFE.

SCOTLAND YARD METHODS. LENGTHY ORDEAL ALLEGED. Australian au* N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. May '-!0. The wife of Frederick G. Browne, one of the two men condemned to death for the murder of Constable Gutteridge in Essex, has made allegations against Scotlaud Yard officials in a letter published in Eevnolds News. She asserts that on the day after her husband was arrested officials from the Yard took her to a police station at 10.30 a.m. and detained licr there until 7 p.m. Mrs. Browne alleges that she was questioned for hours. She had nothing to eat or drink. Her child, who accompanied her, cried bitterly for food. The police then provided some tea and tough sandwiches. She asserts that the questioning never ceased. The officials said she must have been aware of her husbands mo\ements and what he was doing. She was tired and worn out when she was allowed to gO 1 . Sbe might have said anything, she was so fatigued. CASE OF MISS SAVAGE. LIMITING PENDING INQUIRY. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, May 21. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. E, Hopkin Morris, Independent Labour member for Cardigan, gave notice to move sn amendment to limit the coming inquiiy into the methods of Scotland \ard to the action of the police in taking Miss Savage to the Yard. A number of the Opposition members fear the matter of the interrogation of Scotland Yard officials would otherwise be obscured by a mass of details about the Hyde Park case. Moreover, they think a public inquiry might prejudice criminal proceedings for perjury. .