CHARGE DISMISSED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 50, 3 May 1928, Page 5

CHARGE DISMISSED

COSTS (JiVEJt AGAINST POLICE. ALLEGED INDECENT BEHAVIOUR United. Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. In the case in which Sir L. fJhiozza Money.and Miss Savage were charged with indecency in Hyde Park, the Magistrate, following Money’s eVidence, stopped the case which he dismissed, awarding £lO 10s costs against the police. Sir L. Chiozza Money gave evidence that he had known Miss Savage for eighteen months. She was of unquestionable reputation and was engaged to he married. They frequently went to theatres together.

On the night mentioned in the charge they had dinner in the West End, walked to the Park, and had been sitting in adjoining chairs for ten minutes when a plain clothes policeman appeared and suddenly made a charge that they were behaving indecently. They were roughly handled en route to the police station.

The Magistrate said the explanations of the Police as to why they had failed to obtain available evidence failed to satisfy him. Anyway, he could not help thinking that in such cases the 'police in charge of stations should send reports to headquarters for the consideration of the Commissioners.. If that done the present case would not have been brought;