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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1961.
by Edgar
THE POLICE & THE PUBLIC Lustgarten
PART SEVEN
Can an innocent man always be
sure of freedom?
VINE-street
our
# not
never acquired by in such a place, for att un its modern counterpart accompanied inalc. in Savile Row,
Unusual
ала
of
an-
When Hastings rose to cross examine the Inspector, there was the unmistakable glint of battle in his eye.
it ward from his club a loftering diary bearing his game and his that matters did not rest with
woman had arcusted khm. That address ut Cumind Head- the majur's complete was a police station before the Street Offences quarters; and 17 envelope, triumphant vindication. that possessed a glam- Act was
uncommon marked "On His Majesty's Ser- Happly for the interests experience, at such a time and vice," containing papers for the the urdhiary citizen, a special preparation of a military report.
Guvernment Inquiry was set up; a distinguished silk in Mr J. P. All club, from which Rawlinson presided; and anyone might have been other even more distinguished, brought to Identify him in Sir Patrick Hastings now lent was, merenver, barely five Major Sheppard his formidable
ald. minutes away. You woul have thought, But thin woman's purpose wouldn't you, that, in these eir- fined out
the police to be unusual. It umstances, it
be- was not tu solicit custom, but loved the charge merited court
"Had you the slightest reason felt the to doubt," he asked, "that Major to peruse the major of stealing, investigation, if they
alwould clear himself Sheppard was the minu he re- on soine previous occasion, from used her round.
publicly (us presented himself to be?"
The Sheppard subsequently
inspector thought - Major Sheppard's reactions did), they would at least have thought of the diary, the railway stemmed from his impecability. given him maximum protection, warrant, the Horse Guards' He looked round for a constable, put him to minimum discomfort, pass. and eling none about, put the and accorded him speediest ball? woman into a tax and drove with her to Vine-street, so that be officially disposed of. This monstrous imputation could
Understandably, because the glamour sprang from a clientele fiat does not "now exist.
Johnnies, the The Piccadilly Boat Race Night revellers, the Ladies of the Town (as dèing: from tarts and strippers) —all of them lent Vine-street tanch of class. even romance, which made detention there an obatiques compilment.
a
You might get jailed, or fined, you might anywhere else, hat of least you gut a curious social cachet, too.
renson
to
uby
There is strong doubt, though, whether Majur Sheppard, hallant soldier of
drew spotless character, comfort from reflections of this kind during the hours he un- expectedly spent at Vine-street the summer night in 1925.
The major, however, found it vastly easier to walk into Vine- street than to walk out again,
formally Major
unct
A denial
Yes. Doubtless Major Shep. He was lavishly equipped with pard thought so too. He was to proofs of his identity. Be care be sharply and painfully dis- shortly after led his railway warrant; his illusioned. all started half-past wine, when, as he Horst Guards pas inscribed The taxi pulled up al-Vine- walked down Piccadily home- with Ble
rank; his street shortly
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before 10. An inspector heard the woman's complaint and the majar's Hat dental, He look the latter's Buger prints as though by legal right.
He curtly refused his re- quest for leave to telephone his solicitor. He gave him no opportunity 10 make contact with friends.
For the inspector had carly made up his' sind that the inatier should go forward: and, because the woman's room pitre of the ertrofe, if any-was in the Hunter-stfeet, and nol the Vine-street, Station area, he decided to hold the major until he could he collected by officers from-Hunter-street and taken to be charged there.
The inspector would not charge him-but nor would he give him ball till be tods charged.
This decision bore heavily on an innocent man who had en- trasted himself to Vinc-street's notion of procedure. Allogether he was held at Vine-street for four hours, and it was 2.30 am before he had been taken to Hunter-strcut, charged. and given bail.
This course of events, plus the status of the man involved in then, conspired to ensure
"No," he said.
"Was he in custody at Vine- street.
"He was detained pending Inquiries, sold the Inspector.
cautiously.
"You telephoned to Hunter- Street yourself?"
"Yes, I did."
fetched him from unter-street "And then kept him until they
to charge blm?"
Yea
"Suppose." spid Hastings, that the chargu against Major Sheppard had been made out f the country,
would you havu followed exactly the same prae- tice as you did "
"Yes,"
"Telephone them in the coun
try
LEONARD
'The major found it vastly easier to walk into Vine
Street than to walk out again'
"It wasn't locked."
him there in custody
"Not locked? Didn't you inke
"Yes."
"But being so, you left the door open so that he could get out?"
"There was a jailer there in charge of all the prisoners."
"Yes," said the inspector... Those two questions and their respective answers-fore- shadowed the conclusions that Rawlinson was later to prevent in his Report.
What would have hap. How often?
pened. If Major Sheppard had sold 'No, thank you; 1 don't want to go into the detention room" 7" "He would have been taken there."
"Yes,"
"Then keep him till he could be fetched?"
saw
"All night."
"Yea"
"The real principle underlying the whole matter," he wrote, is that every person in custody who can safely be bailed has a right to be balled at the earliest passible moment. It is vital that the police should bear this prin- ciple in mind,
For a moment, the inspector himself hack where his "You wouldn't have let him word was law, but the sweet
vision faded. out on bali?"
"It is your view that, when a prisoner is brought in, he should
bail ut be given
the earliest possible moment?""
It is a matter of conjecture "Yes," said the inspector, how often that had occurred be
"No."
"It was absolutely lust sight of in Major Shep- pard's cuse."
Not locked adding doggedly "after he is fore at Vine-street. It is a fair
People in court gazed at one another, eyebrows raised. "In your opinion," went on Hastings, Mig charge of this sort serious or not?"
"It all depends," repiled the Inspector, knowing that the charge concerned a sum of £18 in all.
"How do you regard it?" insisted Hastings.
"It is a frequent offence," the inspector conceded,
"You locked Major Sheppard up in the delention room?"
charged."
assumption that it occurred for less frequently thereafter, Hastings stepped back a
For the Sheppard Inquiry fur- little as if to assess the nished a salutary reminder that
From wreckage.
above the liberty of the subject must Rawlinson leaned a little always be more precious than forward.
or the olther the convenience conventions of the police. "Inspector." There was the customary slight throb in court at judicial intervention, "In- spector, is there any act of Par- Ilament which says that a mon
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"No," sald the inspector. "But that is the custom at Vine-street?"
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Paris,
BRITISH capital is being urgent-
ly sought by a Paris hotel chain
to help counter a spectacular bid by an American financial group for
a famous Paris site.
The site is that of the Gare D'Orsay at which is also located the sprawling Edwardian Hotel D'Orsay.
CLAUD, once
clerk, BIDS
FOR OLD FIRM
The hotel was built in 1900 and it is the second oldest "Grand Hotel" in Paris. On first Impression its chandeller lit reception rooms and prison-like cor- ridora are depressing. For
underneath the hotel to connoisseurs of Parls hotols, alongside it and run however, it has long been direct electrified train servico famous for its suites which between it and Orly Airport. are of quite unusual charm. The French railways also An for the station, it was used wont an underground tunnel for before the war to receive dis-
a huge parking site. Finally tinguished visitors, but it now unly serves line.
single suburban
Insistent
a sifa was for many years a clerk in Even more menacing was the a fant, that hotel.
resignation earlier of General Poully, the only commander in Algeria whu remained fully loyal to de Gaulle during the alortive April putsch.
Hin resignation reflects the reluctance of senior ofrers to ference by General de endure once again a conflict of
true and on ground floor level A
MENACING
NOTHER
Presa
con-
they alan npeelty that in order Gaulle has come and gone loyalties between the army and to it in with the landscape of and all one can say la that de Gaulle. the Seine the hotel is altuated it loaves the situation inside almost exactly opposite the
Louvre the new hotel should is France more menacing than no more than nine storeys in over. height.
Surprising
In the Bght_of_these Tesig-
The properly in owned by the
It is surely one of the most nations it is all the more sur- French Railways, which earca
that a The present Indications are country glittering in its pros- troop General Masait, who has
remarkable paradoxes
prising that, the famous Para- the hotel to the company which that the bid most likely to perity should be haunted by been unemployed for nearly two controln the Triumplie and succeed in tint of Mr Claud the four of civil war.
Louvre hotels.
Phillip. one time General Manager of the Waldorf Astoria,
Frare, has been given command Two recent events have under- of the paratroopers in Meiz.
the resignation
The lease runs out at the end New York, and now heading an ined the growing danger. Fitst Lookfig Uke à gesture of con- of the year and the French Important U.S. financial syndi here was
of Adence, it is in fact a confession Hallways liave asked for tendera cate with major hotel Interente, General Staff, Olle is a des- hold them in circk,
General alle, Chief of the of wedictions. Only Massu can for the site insisting that the
to replace the old one.
buyer should build a new hotel who is a naturalized US citizen, nation attributed
Mr Phillip Is a Frenchman perately sick man, but his resiz You In Britain may wody to medical about the bomb, we in France Titere in n ctrlous personal reasons is in fact due to serious finve ΜΠΟΤΟ Immediato As for the stallon, it is Jutoresi in his bid to buy the political disagreemenis with occupations.
to remove this from site of the Hotel D'Orway, He, de Coulle.
--(London · Exprem Heroine),
Intended
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