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"TIDE OF LIES" IN BRITAIN'S WEALTH.
COURTS.
JUDGE ON AUDACIOUS WOMEN PERJURERS.
Mr. Justice MeCardic recently -declared that perjury was rife,
.in British courts and that the oath was quickly losing its sanctity."
Finally, he said, that the scientist who could discover some reliable and practical method of testing veracity would be "the greatest benefactor, known in the history of human justior."
The judge was lecturing at the |British Medical Association offlers OD Truth." His three main points were:
Perjury by a person recused is now, I regret to eny, regarded as being the normal incident of a contested criminal trial. It has ceased to surprise. It has become almost matter of course. A man charged with, crime gives evidenco as n rule not to admit an offence, but to deny it.
SIR J. STAMP'S OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATES.
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Britain's national capital bie now reached an estimated letal of £24,445,000,000 gross and £18,045,000,000 net.
These are new figures, given by Sir Josiah Stamp in his inaugural address as president of the Royal Statistical Society, at the Royal Society
Adelphi.
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FASCINATED BY WAR
MR. H. G. WELLS ON YOUNG MEN'S VIEW.
A warning that young men of to- day find a fascination in war was uttered by Mr. H. G. Wella at hi Westminster Conference,
The Conference was organised by the National Council for the Pre- vention of War, and pence workers from all parts of the country were
·prosent, of Arts, John-street,
The figures are subject to n statistical. approximation, of "ex treme margin of possible doubt,' of £1,350,000,000.
Bir Josiah said us studies show ed that we had spent the whole of our natural savings, for about six years following 1014, and lost
quarter of our foreign invest ments.
Wo had then saved somewhere
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"I think," he said, "that an out- break of war in the Near East of nearer, la quite possible in a fow years' time. Some sort of accident might happen next year or the year
after. It is as close as that,
"You are going to be entirely in- effective when the time comes. The War Office is ready, but your move- mont merely mects and talks.”
200 Days a Year..
Mr. Wells said he devoted ̈ 200- days of hard work every year to prevent the war system going on in the world.
I have ruined a good second-
about £150,000,000 a year for the class reputation as a novelist by that occupation," he said, "It has next eight years.
led the reviewers to describe me na a propagandist. If I wrote a poem about the sky-lark they would some. how discover propaganda in it."
I must venture to add here, and with some regret, that I think
The 1914 Estimate. perjury in the Law Courts is in
There had been no detailed in some degres encouraged and investigation or computation of na- erenged by the low standard of tonal capital since his own for frankness and honesty so widely 1914 of 14,310,000,000. and unhappily shown in many napects of our party political ayatem. Too often the oath is looked upon additiona
no a mero formality.
"Perjury in the Divorce Court by those who enter the witness-box in answer to a charge of miscon- duct is but little less prevalent than in the courts which administrato
the criminal law," Mr. Justion Me- Cardic 'said.
The average total each year of prosecutions for perjury in all classes and throughout the country was 50 If the offencs was followed
All subsequent references to na tional capital had been based on this with rough modifications and
Mr. Wells' first suggestion was what he described as "the extreme and definità course for the shock- troops." Their attitude should be, "I won't fight, I won't work and I won't pay taxes." There should be a parallel group who would express their readiness to support their country if their country was in the right.
It had been well-night impossible, he said, to constructe post-war estirante with any success until re- Replying a Mr. Silas Hocking, cently, because over no period had who suggested that the world rentis the conditions remained stable fored the horror of war, Mr. Wells said Luficiently long..
he thought that half the young men of England, France or Germany under the age of 25 found a tre
endous fascination in war.
The effect of the excess pronts duty, and then the effect of the inflation and the lump of 1920, the roturn to the gold standard and the recent collapse in prices, were all disturbing factors.
- Bafting Problems.
A number of now and very the old mothods were inadequate to deal with properly:
by prosecution-assuming that tech-balling problems had arisen which nical requirements could be fulfilled then the criminal courts of this country would be engaged every day of the year in trying offenders against the law of perjury.
Wives Who Tall Lies...... Then Mr. Justice MeCardie de clared:
"I think that deliberately false evidenco is but rarely given for the prosecution in criminal cases of Anything approaching a serious nature. The exceptions to this general statement are to be found in cases where children or girls, and sometimes grown women, give, ovi. dence against men who are charged with sexual offences.. In these cases the evidence of children, girls, and women is often most seriously tainted with falsity.
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Life Enther Boring. "Half the young people who went to see Journey's End did not como away horrified," he said. "A lot of them are finding life rather boring. Business openings are not attractive, and these young men are not going to dislike the begin ning of the next war.!!
Professor Gilbert Murray declar The restriction of rents housing ed that the real danger of war subgies, and large governmental would come from the ordinary, laes, expenditure on roads, all raised selfish elector, who, when any curious problems of valuation.crisis across and when he was asked But the most important of all to make some sacrifice, wanted to was the proper treatment of the know why it was necessary to colossal National Debt, the old trouble about other nations in Agin mathud of merely deducting the or the Far East. National. Debt from the value of Stato, property, being no longer appropriate.
The Guy Medal in gold was presented to Mr. AW. Flax by Sir Josiah, for distinguished scr vices to statistical science.
and satisfactory degree. In crimin: al cases he could any from his own long experience of Quarter Bessions and Assizes that he did not resil a single case in which a really in nocent man had been ponvicted.
times they were given on technical Acquittals were frequent. Some
Perjury is rarely comunitted by those who are petitioners for divorce or by, witnesses who are called in support of the petition.. grounds. Not a few of the guilty The bulk of perjury in the
escaped. The Inw assumed inno.. Divorce Court is committed by those
cence. It required adequate proof who are actually charged with mis of guilt. Jurien were often lenient, conduct.
He could recall few cases where a wife had not been ready to follow a husband's example and to support his perjured testimony with her own false evidence. The personal character of a wit
ness was in many cases more im portant than the gath itself. So
Mr. Justice McCardie continued: sustained perjury usually comes "In my view the ablest and most from witnesses of the self-possessed type.
"And here, it may be asked, which of the persons charged with an offence gives evidenes in the coolest and most self-posscated man-
far as the oath was efficient at allner My answer is: It is the per-
on charged with murder.
manner.
it was the fear of prosecution rather than the mere ceremony which
"I recall but few persons BO effected the desired purpose...
charged who have not given their The form of the oath spered in testimony in a quiet, confident, al- itself to be suitable, inasmuch naroitness of reply, ingenuity of ex- most dispassionate way, with ad- the witness was required to speak planation, and singular ease of
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." He was bound to any, however, that even the honest witness might have bome- times a difficulty in speaking the whole truth, for the reason that the testimony given by the witness was BO often limited by the carefully. framed question of the counsel who called him..
Too rarely was the honest-witness allowed to tell his own story in his own way. Too often, therefre, was the dishonest withras enabled to present an untrue picture to the pourt
The habitual criminal is often the best witness of all.
"I think it may also be said that nothing can exceed the skill," the self-confidence, and the anda- cious reliance on sex that is so frequently displayed by the in telligent female perjurer..
She has, moreover, his trionic senso which is not as a rule possessed by the male.
A vast amount of inaccurate Lestimony is given day by day by honest witnesses. Perhaps the most And here I must face a ques-striking illustration of bias or tion which I have more than once partisanship is to be found in the nut to myself. It is this. Does the numerous almost inaumerable- fulfilment of a barrister's functions. civil actions known as running as an advocato" tend to implant a
· 19 down cases. false standard or conception in the mind of the average witness prezent in court and watching with eager interest the conduct of a case by counself I fear that the answer must be "Yes" The eflect of a Barrister's advocacy on a witness is The psychologist who could dis subtle and psychological. „But i
1 is cover soma reliable and practical I think, a real influence"
method of testing veracity would If perjury was so rife in the indeed be the greatest, benefactor courts, could justice be done? His known in the long history of human answer was that through the ex-justice.
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What could be done to steam this tide of perjury Here was a grave, and far-reaching question, not only, or paychologists, but for all res nonsible citizent
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powerful weapon of cross-examing the preacht aystem of acertaining tion wielded by the counsel, justice truth would progress to what he was, in fact, done to a very lang might call a practical science of
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