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OF which cases the fiscal acts as solici-
COMPARISON WITH ENGLAND FAVOURABLE TO SCOTLAND
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"It in his duty to investigate all of sudden death where # doctor was not present at death;
cases
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sight fentures of Scottish criminal in Edinburgh a transcript of the Documentary 4 months vestigation and trial should be evidence and of the verdict for con-
sight adopted in England is made by Mr.|sideration by Crown Counsel, who
On Parla- William Mitchell, K.C.
determines if and what criminal On demand The question has arisen fol-proceedings are necessary.
The Credits, 4 months' lowing the recent inquest at Read-procurator-fiscal work hand-in- sight Ing, where (says Mr. Mitchell, hand with the polico, receives the writing in the "Contemporary results of their investigations, and on demand Review") the spectacle was seep calls on them to make further in- "of a man against whom no charge quiries where necessary. had been laid auffering the ordeal
Secret Preliminarles of a coroner's inquest, where the "Except for his appearances for musi intimate matters of his private commitment, at the first or pleading life were laid bare to the public diet, and at the
actual trial, the wire gaze and a devouring Press. He accused never appears in public on demand left the court free from any charge court. No police-court proceedings
On Calcutta yet with no verdict of 'Not Guilty or coroners' inquests or appearances Wire
even of Not Proven in his before the Grand Jury add a new On demand favour.
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"In particular, the enforcement of law and order should not be left to private individuals whose desire to prosecute may be hampered or defeated entirely by lack of funds, fear of publicity, or other causes Yet it is only in the most serious crimes that the duty of pursaing the guilty in assumed by the State, and when it does not do so the guilty person may escape without
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"The distinctive feature of the Scottish system of criminal prosecu tion is the office of procurator-fiscal, His 'juladiction coincides roughly with the county or sheriffdom, but In some of the more populous coun- tries there may be several such officers, each acting in a separate district. The procurator-fiscal is nearly always a fully qualified law- agent, and his appointment is a permanent one. He is, except in some small countics, debarred from private practice.
cused.
"Lastly, after the whole evidence is led, counsel for the Crown ad- dresses the jury, then counsel for the accused, who thus has the last word-another benefit to the ac verdict end the case.
The judge's charge and the
"Such, briefly is the simple, dignified course criminal Investigation and trial. Of of the Scottish its fairness and effectiveness no one can entertain a doubt. That it has prevailed substantially in this form from time immemorial and still commands the confidence of the country is the beat tribute to its excellence. Surely some of its features can be adopted in British. procedure with advantage, and thue remove the objections associated with that system of criminal neo-
secution."
A FRONTIER EPIC Heroic Rescue by a White Woman
The report in a Home paper that Mrs. Underhill, the wife of Lieut.- "When a crime or a suspected Col. G.E.C. Underhill, 1st Punjabis, crime arises the fiscal receives in-recently lectured in London to the formation from the police or from East India Association on "Women private individuals, and acts along and New Movements in India," re- with the police, where necessary, in calls an heroic rescue on the Indian prosecuting inquiries. He reports Frontier which, in the spring of the case to the Crown Office, by 1923, was followed with breathless whom it is submitted to Crown interest by newspaper readers all Counsel for directions. He prepares over the world.
For several years after the war Indictments in all cases heard in the Sheriff Court, subject to revision by there was much unrest amongst the Crown Counsel; he acts as prosecu-tribes of the unadministered ares, tor in the Sheriff Court except in and raids into British districts were such cases as are conducted by the of distressing frequency.
Depre advocate-deputy of these Courts, indations of a particularly during character were traced to a gang of] Afridis under the leadership of one Ajab. His crimes involved various
authorities, and at last, reduced to desperate straita-ruined, outlawed, and mocked by their follow tribes-
Eating Between Meals, clans in trouble with the British
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A Thing to be Avoided
Do you know that the stomach men the gang sought sanctuary in needs rest regularly and that eat-the Tirah, and resolved to kidnap a ing between meals is a common European and to hold their captive cause of Indigestion?
as security for full pardon for their Do you know what happens many offences, when you eat more than you can
Wife Murdered
digest? Do you know that good when a terrific storm was raging, On the night of April 14, 1928, digestion is impossible unicas the
blood is rich and red, such bloodMajor Ellis returned from official comes from the use of Dr. wife murdered in her bed and their duty to his bungalow to find his Williama" Pink Pilla.
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daughter Molly, a girl of seventeen,
These tonic pills will change missing. She had been carried off dyspeptic, despondent people into energetic, cheerful men and women; because Dr. Williams'
by a gang of five Afridis, who, mov ing with great secrecy and speed, avolded all tribal patrols, and half-
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pink pills build up the blood carried and half-drove her through fatal to the abducted giri, and that making the stomach able to secrete rough mountainous country to their the only hope was to send in search the needed digestive fluids; at the base in the Tirah. same time they strengthen the Mrs. Starr (now Mrs. Underhill) who had intimate knowledge of the Watsonal
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Intrepidity and Bluff
Line Crawfords Mrs. Starr was accompanied by Mackintosh Williams pink pills the first sign marriage to Dr. Harold Starr he tiesaldar Moghal Baz Khen, e per- of returning health is usually an was stabbed to death in her pre-sonal assistant to the Chief Com Increased appolite. Then you find sence by Pathan assassins, who missioner, into the unknown where Wm. Powie that what you ent causes no dis went to his bungalów at midnight, no white man ever went, through tress, and if you exercise reason on pretext of getting medical doubtfully friendly or definitely able care in the selection of your fellet. But she did not hesitate hostile tribes, not knowing whether food you will have no more trou when Sir John Maffey, then Chier it might be her lot to join Miss Ellis H.K. Apement Fri 18
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