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CID Women Make Good In The War On
T
By
ODAY, the police woman is taken for granted. But this has not always been so. When the first women police ap peared in the London streets in 1919, with their un imaginative uniforma. and impossible boots, they were an embarrassing target of ridicule. Passers-by stopped to stare and giggle.
Crime
MONTGOMERY HYDE, MP
any powers of arrest. Their sphere of duties as well as their least half a dozzi vietims by
in
book." The
main task was to help in powers were extended, so that the "eld bath" process,
they eventually bacanie an in-, The details of this and other curbing prostitution in the valuable link between all achievements of the melro- West End. Yet reluctance claries of female offender, politan women polies are told in
interesting the an was shown in putting them real and potential, and into the witness-box in various welfare-unications author. Miss Lilian Wylca, was charged, with the after-care ot one of the original inembers of magistrates' court to supply char
women and children.
the force in 1919, and of her 38 the corroborative evidence Their services were also used years service, she spent 27 with necessary
soliciting to advantage in the Criminal the CID.
Department charges. For a long time Investigation
at THE 'GREEN TAIL' Scotland Yard. male police preferred to put
For instance, it was a woman
Miss Wyles describes many of rach other into the box for
member of this branch who the eases in which she parúci- the pated, including the celebrated this purpose rather than the began the inquiries into
murder, Mrs Durand Thompson- Bywaters disuppearance of Women.
Deacon in 1940 from the and the so-called "Case of the Kensington ACID BATH
Horse with the Green Tall," an assault committed at the florse Slowly, but surely, however, the new branch of the force een to make its way, and by the mid-twenties its members were rendering a real service to the community.
hotel
she where
lived.
This woman detective Inter- Guaris by a number of guards-
T
men on a 14-year-old girl in
1938.
At first, too, their male colleagues resented Their presence in the force. They had to patrol in pairs, their hours of duty being limited to the afternoon and even
viewed John George Haigh, who was staying in the same hotel,
Perhaps the most interesting ing, and the men had strict
and was immediately struck by orders to keep them always
his plausibilty and shiftiness case in which Miss Wyles was in sight, and to rush imme- Their clothing and equipment Her prompt action and sub- professionally concerned-it cer- tainly received the widest pub- diately to their assistance were designed on more rational sequent report to her superiors jelly at the time-was that of should it become necessary.
gradually resulted in the arrest and con- Miss Irene Savage in 1928, since appreciated viction of a notorious murderer it led Nor had the women police throughout the force, and their who had made away with
their ling,
Cante
work
be
DE GAULLE HAS TROUBLE
WITH REBELS, TOO
Paris,
TF there is anything more 且 unreal thu a French
political crisis, it is British
and American reaction to
it.
in London
Paris Newsletter
from SAM WHITE
was who jumped on the de Gaulle
last questor of an not yet arrived.
at
to serious charges being against the police of third degree" methods in the Interrogation of
persons in custody and also of giving
ing perjured evidence, Miss
Savage,
સ
factory
employed, had gone for a walk with an ex-MP, Sir Lee Chlozza Money in Hyde Park, when
had been arrested by two police constables and chargest hour" had with an unpleasant offence. At the subsequent police court The French Parliamentary hearing they were discharged, Government has
many while at the same time it was last quarter of an hours" and suggested on behalf of Sir Lea except for its war-time collapse Money that the two polic survived them all. I, for one, constables
had given Inise
am
Econ
not taking my stop-watch evidence, out this time.
THE LAST WORD TRENCH matinee idol, Robert
The Commissioner of Police
Chief instructed
Inspector Alfred Collins to make a fuli into the allegea perjury, inquiry
it was as to the examina-
and baud-wagon to secure election. A LAMOUREUX, has ordered an Miss Savage by the Chief
101
Detective-sergeant Clarke, which accusation,, Miss Wyles accom- panied Irene Savage to Scotland Yard, but was not present when she was questioned.
had led to the "third degree
Four years ago, when Freuch Governinents were tuinbling-- have you ever known a time when they were not?-t Cehlonable Washington to speak of Fratice They increasingly resented being the removal of a large photo- as being "on the brink of civil condemned by de Gaulle to graph of himself in the lobby Inspector and his assistant, war."
sterle
cpposition, when they of the Edward VII Theatre. During the past week, as a might have beon sharing the. Aller wemin admirers result of the latest crisis, It has fruits of office.
written on it such impassioned been assumed that the country
23. "I love De Gaullo had become in phracts 23, was ready a long last to slig ereasingly intent on a policy of and
You
arc into the tight embrace of ridding his party of the Tory Lamoureux hid near ille photo Gerrei al DE GAULLE,
And taint and competing with So in the hope of seeing the of his what has in fact, happened has cialists
Instead he and Communists for admirers at work. been just the opposite, The working-class votes. Hence his saw a man approach it, scribble crisis which was to have pro- increncingly strident anti- something and walk away wi Parliament and a fudlejal in- vided de Gaulle with his best Americanism; hence his refusal a
satisfied smile. He pportunity has resulted in his to itin a Nationalist Govern- written: "Get back to biggest defeat in five years' ment without the Socialista,
sauerpans, you foals."
UPROAR
will be more
graphed letters
MISTAKES
in
n
The matter was raised hadquiry ordered. At this investi- your gation the
tion the police were complete- ly exonerated of the charges ugainst them, although the Chief zealous. Indeed he realised that, Inspector was shown to be over-
deliberately excluding woman police ofter
from the questioning of Miss Savage, he had-made” a foolish mistake,
If similar circumstances were to arise today, it is safe to Resume that a woman member of the force would Invariably be.
Indeed justined their existence. present, The women police have
campaigning for political power. The immediate outlook for the
THE BAND WACON de Gaullets is that the split PARTS hotel has prepared Not only has his party split, will become
and A permanent,
for the tourist season by but in so doing it has provided that there
de- Inying in a stock. of mimeo- the basis for an alternative ferlions,
written In majority--and a coherent con-
The shrst result will be that English. The letters read: servative one-to replace pre-
"Dear Sir or Madum. We of de Gulle's party will lose its coalitions unwieldy vlous
of being regret to inform you that as a Con- much-vaunted claim Socialists, Liberals and
the biggest single party in Par- result of the disturbances you servatives,
liament, and will have to yield caused last night we cannot Defcicns from de Gaulle's
continue to lodge you here. We Parliamentary party have long hai honour to the Socialists, been expected. Many of his followers General de Gaulle ask your room on at the latest. In a personal appeal to his therefore request you to give up MP are merely Conservatives ed them not to vote for M. We regret that this measure
Pinny because, he claimed, "The has become necessary,
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