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One lunch hour, unexpectedly, an impressive polico, car containing ihres polleemen and a policeweman, drew up conspicuously et Miss Savidge s piaco of work.
HONOUR STAKE
MISS SAVIDGE
... and the case against the police
"It's necessary to get every grounds that they had followed onbed. He discerned
dotali that you can.”
•What did you want with the young man? To bully him in the same way2"
Collins, already fighting
A
"establishod
( practice"--but adderi peril to prtynde eltizens that "established practice did squarely add the principal blame not commend it. This report upon Inspector Collins. also recommended that late 70
ments should be taken when Node the lane, profound rolled possible at a person's home; und must-have been doll among that when a woman made': a' primarily affected (at the
her enorate, colher words drastic mesures; no should invariably be premeniti
Losing battle, was stung into a abatement, and it touched: Lupon -The majority, reports
"If she were willing" he and most algnicant newer. swered cautiously.
seilon highly
"If possible?"
✩ The police brought against an eminent mon ́and`a respectable lady. It collapsed ignomin- ionsly. Then Parliament looked Into the affairs of the police themselves. ·
by Edgar Lustgarten
TN 1928 there stood at stake a reputation greater than that of any individual. Deep
concern arose
His investigation took a ques- tionable forTIL....
"This was ari nquiry to à suspected crime by two polios officers," he retorted, and wo were entitled to make inquiries to disprove that charge,"
of an Of course, if, instead impartial investigation, a cam- been initiated to paign' had extricate these officers, the treat- ment of Mix Savidge-fils nently into place. -
She was misled.
THE 'Labour
produtions, no dispiac But Savidge Inquiry did not fall of its purpose. It contributed in substantial
to those
higher standards that have.
generally prevalled since, ampte the London polios,...
minority report WORLD COPTRIGHT RESERVEN
Was 'more courage» ous, and more. In accordance with
the ovidence, He
It is one thing to be high- handed in your office with a frightened gifl; it is another in open court with one of the most commanding counsel in the land "Very wait, sir, yes," Inspector Collins said.
"Why was Bextr
Eventually the tribunal pro misled about the nature of the "To accumpary Miss Savidge." duced two distinct reports. The inquiry, that she had beery asked "Why should there be a police- majority--the ex-judge and the questions that ought not to have Conservative MP-half-heartedly been asked, and that some of 20 whitewashed the police on the her answers fhad been mirrepre-
the polkowoman
One lunch hour, quite un-" woman in the cor where
car questions were asked, and nono expectedly, an impressive containing three policemen and at Scotland Yont where questions about the
В policewoman, drew up con- were asked?" spicuously at Miss Savidge's place of work. Mias Savidga
methods being employed by those most essential public guardians--the police.
waż
"She was to accompany Miser "Invited" to attend at Savidge," .Collins repeated Scotland Yard, where Inspector woodenly. Collins awaited her arrival..
It began in the most un-
"Was she there," Sir Patrick likely fashion one fine April
At the Yard the policewoman asked, "to Essinge any terrory evening when a highly promptly vanished, and for that this girl might have?"
and a several hours Miss Savidge was respectable lady highly respectable gentle- closeted alone with Inspector
.Collins and
a sergeant. She any other plausible explanation. man, having dined together anally signed A "statement,"
"Was that why she there?"
at a restaurant in town, and at eight o'clock that night strolled into the leafy dark- she was driven home and re- ness of Hyde Park and tired, exhausted, to her bed. presently seated themselves upon adjacent chairs.
He was Sir Leo Money, a distinguished economist, and formerly a prominent MP. She was à Miss Savidge.
Shock tactics
wero
Collins racked this brains for
"I don't know, I'm sure."
was
found that Savidge had been
Next Saturday
The man who saved Parnell
THE TIP-OFF
London.
SAID to Percy Hoskina, our "Chief Crime Reporter: "Why don't we two bloodhounds go out and, find the missing bullion? That's what we would do if we were characters, in a book."
But Percy is not a chap in a Had Miss Savidge then boen. tricked into going to Scotland book. He is 15 st. in the flesh and Yard by
the employment of he said he had a better idea than shock tactics at the use of a that. Why didn't we go to a com deong? And if such wore the pr|fortable club in the West End and Seniorkes, What at the new
wait for someone to bring us some
Inside information ?
t
It
:
QUCH things, may Sometimes my unremarked even in England, but icas
Sir Patrick picked up horAll the best jobs are done on They had been gossiping
easily If the victim
Influential statement-that statement which inside information these days," thus for a few minutes
friends,
Questions much effort had been x-he said, "Without it the crooks when, to their uttar
pended to obtain.
could never have stolen the gold being SOOTT astonishment and horror, asked in the House of Commons;
"Abcording to this, when she and without some more of two plain clothes policemen a passionate debate took placu described how she was attires the police are unlikely to
it back. bore roughly down on them on the adjournment; the Home in the Park, she used the ex- Secretary found himself assailed pression, I was inclining towards and levelled an accusation of from every side.
Sir Leo'?" indecency. Indignant pro- tests and denials proved of no avail, and later, at the police: station, formal charges were preferred.
Policewoman
one:
"Yes."
"You know Mas Savidge says you put those words into her mouth?”
in the result, special tribunal was set up-one Con- servative MP (Mr Withers) and
Socialist MP (Mr Loen Smith), presided over by retired Judge (Lord Justice Bankes)-in order to investigate "I know, but I deny it.” the Investigators.
would be remarkable, **** Abuse of the power which is wouldn't it—and it would be very entrusted to the police con- helpful to the tive offibers whose prosecutios stitutes the
In questionist gravest possible conduct is treated it as just threat
to ciyll freedom, Con- turned out that fles Savidge,
used another Hyde Park scloumes of that fact, pervaded of her own accord, base. But, in court, the whole country, and the exact words they used befonds the matters did not work out quite as interest aroused by the tribunal's magistrate?" they intended. cesions was not solely due to
Miss Savidge's isolated came.
THE
Attor hearing Sir
Leo, without so much as calling
Secking nothing
- Collins did not reply,
..
"And...
**Careless "talk" costs bullion. Somebody spoke out of turn, othamvise the gang would not have known when and how the gold was to be moved. someone on the other side has been talking too. That is why the police are so sure there has been a slip-up in the gangsters plans and that the gold is still in the country."
It's the password to a good crime
BERNARD WICKSTEED and PERCY HOSKINS take over the bloodhound's job for another day
the Pearly Gates, but it is how the bullion, and diamonds recorded that on his deathbed were brought in by, air and kapt The classic example of inside, he bequeathed his good works in bond." Information was the 1941-51 to another locksmith,
The only thing was that the series of safe robberies. In 10
Santa Claus, the Second was police had as much inside in the years: 200 safeg were opened
not as lucky os the first. Ha formation about the plansk with duplicate keys,...
was given away by inside, infor- "the crookng as the crooke
about the airport.
"Do you know that they both
The pollos could understand: mation. a crooked, clerk lending the keys of one safe to a gang, but not 200, of them all, over
the
The Gerning worked the mamma, sort of trick when they
| dismissed -- the charges against for herself, she had bataDever used that term 'She was in country. Another odd thing was invaded Holisnd. As fast as the
on Miss Bavidge, the magistrato
both, said they should never have been brought, and cap it all-awarded costs against the police.
He added a blistering com ment, too, on the conduct of the
had not officers, who
only omitted to get the name - and address of a potential witness, but had actually prevented Sir Leo from so doing.
Folice cases do occasionally
become cling towards him???<
as her counsel. Sir Patrick question was not a private but * Hastings,・・ sakla Pew Ther public one--the relations between the police and those they are supposed to serve, If the polion tilt justify their behaviour, could not well and good; if
they fresh sebeguards must be sought. 24
When Sir Patrick, got up to cro-examine Inspector Collins, -many/besides tho' witmes were
virtually on trial.
the police car arrive
collapse, but seldom in such without the slightest, notice?" manifest ruin, or because of
He pounced
THE coincidence
·scomed startling, to say the least of it. Collins attempted to cover himself -- and slipped
I didn't refer to the shorthand note of the hearing before the magis
inte.
that the inside assistance.
did
Doublecross
They had to break their ready-made duplitates dhe bullion guards" tea, lond":
way
not extend to latting the raiders into the building. in just like
anyone else, but once inside the safe was theirs for the opening.
Santa Claus
Dutch blew up their bridges the Germans brought" along
gang was going to drug The original bridges had been the swag and be off before any- made by German firms and, one knew there had been, they had kept set of spare par
blueprints ready for Dez Tag, They drugged the
At this club where Percy and right but before the guards I were trucking down crime so could drink it they had, strenuously there was a fellow
were
who kept pacing up and down ently spirited away by with his hands behind, his back, men dressed as airport ofici
me the creeper wait was the biggest doible. DERCY put down his Martung It gave m
some inside conch way ofruara
woshte fata, the bu and grinned at me. "All" can give you some
up the right, bloodhound," he said. information about him uid What is the answer? How did Percy. "Never on him before
in my lộc, but 121 bet 10 to one or Sir Patrick pounced Can you guelet coulin time. You can always tell me, "pollon"
the gang get the keys?" -
he bear done a long stretch of themselves surrounded with the speed of lightning", "Ba| The" answer" in that they cane
*** the crooks" who you had that shorthand note from a man who worked for the They cannot get out of the
habit of pacing up and down. Some "Without the choost India when Miss Savidge made her fem that made the gaslá stheir cells like fons at the 200,” in that job. are out of prison besin, and it la posible. *The gang called Hikin statcaryente?"-
"Yo, but did not refer to it. Claus, and every time a new After that I couldn't fake my the police have intide
Ante
to a customer av off the fellow for wonder tion, that a few of them are not went out
· Inspector, Collins igneisbut.
for himself. All ho had to bullion, but Party was already present haul, Singe
w: Josep a list of place off where the sales had been sent informatioubt of theicha
After a long and useful life
Remember the Battle of Then the of wolling keys to crooks, Santa Hesin How. In 1948772 ho sold
beali Claus died without being caught, what wo M|Nobody knows if he took with brooks spent month
hims at set of duplicate keys for the airp
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Bir Leo's fame -- with such pubilelty,
The shadow of a perjury trial
lay over, the officers, in the
on to Mina Savidgers parents or any of her frienda?!!
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