WILL GODDARD GET MONEY BACK?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18674, 31 January 1929, Page 14

WILL GODDARD GET MONEY BACK?

PROCEEDINGS LIKELY TO BE INSTITUTED.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, January 30. No decision has been reached as to the legal ownership of Goddard’s hoard of £12,000 in bank notes, which was seized by the police from a safe deposit. Goddard’s advisers are expected to institute proceedings for the return of the money, less the fine and costs, contending that the money, however it was acquired, is still Goddard’s. The decision in the case has produced the most outspoken newspaper comment. The “ Daily Express ” states that the case has opened the authorities' eyes to a police scandal which has been common knowledge for years. Everyone knowing anything of West End life was perfectly aware that proprietors of night clubs, gambling dens and disorderly houses paid regular tribute to the police. Everyone accepted it as a commonplace except the higher police authorities. The “Daily Express” says that Mrs Meyrick at one time was interested in five clubs. Her profits were easily £IOOO a week. The “Daily Telegraph” says. “It can hardly be doubted that the recent dangerous cloud of suspicion in the public mind against the Metropolitan Police is traceable in no small degree to the scandals which spread from the strange immunity enjoyed by some fashionable night clubs in London. The sentence passed by Mr Justice Avory may well have been intended "to have a sharply deterrent effect upon others.”—Australian Press Association.