LONDON SENSATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17947, 4 May 1928, Page 9

LONDON SENSATION.

DID THE POLICE BLUNDER?

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegruph—Copvrirht.) LONDON, May 1. Following Sir Leo Chiozza Money’s evidence, the Magistrate stopped the case, which), he dismissed, awarding £lO 10s costs against the police. Sir Leo Chiozza Money (who was charged with indecency in Hyde Park) gave evidence that he had known Miss Savage for ,18 months'. She was of unquestionable reputation, and was engaged to be married. They frequently went to theatres together. On the night mentioned in the charge they had dined 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 the charge. They Were roughly handled en route to the Police Station.

The Magistrate said the explanations of the Police wily they had failed to obtain any 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 Commissioner. If that had been done, the present case would not have been brought. (Sir Leo Chiozza Money is a wellknown expert on financial questions, and has published many authoritative books. He has been a Liberal Member of Parliament for several terms, has served in advisory capacities to the British Government, and was unpaid private secretary to Mr Lloyd Geonze, then Minister for Munitions, during 1915 and 1916.)