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1 THE CHINA MAIL,

A national rumpus and then the real

truth comes

"I shall want

to know a

great deal

about this

said the

Lord

Justice,

grimly...

THAT

out

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1961.

blows

up,

what were understandably Events fully confirmed that accepted ps the facts shocked Interlin assessment. By the time und outraged the British sense the Hereford inquiry reached its of justice.

end, It was as plain as a pike- What sort of magistrates were staff that the Divisional Court these who supinely connived at had been seriously misted upon the wildest improprieties? What a crucial issue. sort of police establislument was this which hounded and mis. treated and cheated a small boy?

Acted

In Parliament, In the clubs,

in the pubs, in the trains out in

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Their strictures were based un their accepting as a fact that the boy pleaded Not Guilty in the Juvenile Court.

But did he?

Mistake

The London lawyers handling

the buses und in countless humes the upprai mistakenly sup- Hereford displaced Kier and posed sound the appellant's the Po Valley as the main geo- atidovit was frumed accordingly. graphical focus of discussion, The magistrates, reluctantly rés Obviously something hau lying on an erroucous record be done the Home Secretary

on their natural peted; and early in the Novem recollection, asquleseed in this ber of 1943 Lord Justice God-istoke and their andavits dard arrived at Hereford to hold were framed accordingly. un Inquiry.

The pollee, who could at least

rather thun

Geddarf was not only expert- have put the Divisional Court on enced and acute; he was also guard, did not frame any at- independent and forthright.

davit; they first knew of the appeal from the papers.

the same

not, the Court

1 Ite formed opinion as the Divisional Court, in the Hereford inquiry was The real truth-as it emerged he would probably make their that the boy had entered a scolding seen a tribute by com- pica of Gulliy parison. If he did Weight of a Divisional decision would never deter in from expressing his own view, Very early on in the Invosti gation he pounced an what ultimately furned out to be the key.

(except ta cer- al charges that were dropped). disappeared when the

Any conceivable doubt Anally sulle tor Re court said, "I simply made a who defended him in the juven plea in mitigation"...

So the great storm subsided us

At the appeal, the police had fast as it had risen. There had not put in an affidavit. The been no mistrial by the magis- Divisional Court must have pre- trates, and Lord Justice sumed that they had chosen not Goddard formally reported-"I can and no irregularity on the But coumisel briefed by the part of the police,"

to.

attract-reasury Solicitor to assist

WHAT weekend in Hereford they forgot about the war. The pleasant

county town, so remote from the battles and the bombs, had ed a verbal volley which struck much closer home.

2:4 the Hereford Inquiry said that, so far as he could ascertain, the

"Hert-

with

The local weekly's headline put the matter in a nutshell. ford Juvenile Court Methods Denounced by Judges," it said.

Nor was the use of that harsh verb mere journalistic licence. When allowing an appeal from the Hereford Bench-which had convicted a boy of theft, sentenced him to be birehed, and committed him in'o the care of the Education Authority- the members of the Divisional Court had fairly laid about them.

Mr Justice Charles said the proceedings

**

"absolutely outrageous," Mr Justice Halleit said they presented deplorable pleture." Lord Callecute the Lord Calef Justice si "everything that could have been done wrong seems to have been done wrong."

The magistrales who had tried the case and The police who had COR- ducted it were allke izza eluded this castigation the sharpest of its kind that lawyers could re- member.

1 appeared. however, tu be richly merited, Frum the amdayks witnesses are not called Jn this procedure-the three judges drew & un-

Edgar Lustgarten's

THE POLICE

& THE

PUBLIC

PART. NINE

anknous conclusion thul guli had been assaned from the start in a con- tested ease.

The

palier inspector had begun with ference to the birch: Se had told the Bench that the buy wanted other offences takes Into

Minor

polles were never served notice of the Divisional Court It was a relatively minor tlcz- pruceedings,

"But 1 swipe when he adagu

Goddard turned 10 counse! think representing the boy's father.

**Is that go?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Why were the police given riotice?"

not

"I have no Information." "I shall want to know a great deal about this," said the Lord Justice, grimly.

+

'Why?'

For the moment nothing fur- ther was forthecrning. But that count: a report on the the subject remained to the boy was given to the justices to read-although fore in Goddard's mind became the charges were denied apparent when the Police In- and before they had been *pector, giving evidence on oath, suld that he would have greally proved.

Now a story of this an affidavit to the Divisional kind can-happily-be Court. guaranteed to touch upon

British temperiment.

it desirable that police officers, when prosecuting, should refrain from suggesting sen-; tences unless Invited so to do." The magistrates could hold their heads high again in Here- ford. The pollen in Hereford could ugpin command respect. The Divisional Court, could get back to its work, and Lord Justice Goddard buck to his,

And the rest of Britain once) more turned its attention to the war.

COPYRIGHT:

Edgar Lustgarten, 1961

NEXT WEEK

welcomed an opportunity to offer Mob-rule in Paddington

God-

"It is extraordinary." sensitive spot in the dard said, "that anyone should think it fole and right to pro- Even in the midst of a eced to court to get a conviction desperate fight for sheer quashed without serving notice survival, the local seas on the prosecutor,"

del toon developed Into "But," said counsel for the

national rumpus as

boy's father, "this officer maln tains that there was nothing in the proceedings to incriminate | him."

Sunrise over

the Lantao Peak dear

SIE

"But," said Goddard painted- ly, "he was the prosecutor and obtained the conviction."

Still nothing further was forth- coming. Goddard's brow con- {tracted ominously. Presently the remnants of his patience were exhausted.

"Can I now," he said, "be given any reason why the police were not served with notice? 1 loud speaker to the munustery. want to know if I am to have ele, The residue amount of an explanation." $2,031.10 was donated to the Only under this intenseand monastery as subscriptions to-justifiable-pressuré was the one words Pol and incense" ex-man produced who might Tur Denses fur worshipping the nish soine assistance. The Buddin.

London sotieftor who was acting

4

If Mr Wilson had seen what for the boy's father on appeal. food

the "Did you Rive was served to and con-

police

could hardly be called generous

"No."

It was indeed a great pleasure to read the sumed by the hikers, he would notice?" he was asked. article by Mr Peter Wilson in your last Saturday's gree that the amount donated issue regarding the recent climbing of the Lantao in view of the soaring price of Peak by 300 hikers to reach there before dawn to foodstuffs in recent months. It will not occasion much sur- see sunrise. Very disappointingly the rising sun monks felt towards the hikers, did not deem this a wholly satis- was obstructed from view behind a thick screen but t

**Why not?" "Because," he said, "it didn't occur to me at the lime," 1 cannot here tell how the

prise that Lord Justice Goddard traditional factory explanation. The sinis- that all are slon,

moreover, his lordship there is no thought, bedevilled the whole

Is the

Buddhist principle

of mist arising from the nearby hills and beyond welcome provided

the horizon which made vision impossible beyond breach of the Buddhist sula-business.

Blons. The monastery authorities "Had the police been Inform- }

50 yards.

As is understood, that was the tenth year attempt on the Lan to Peak to see the sunrico and on three occaslung only could use kkers enjoy the marvellous scene of the rising sun,

As a matter of fact the Ideal time for the elimbing would be abuut the latter part of Novem-

shipping programine and above all I is important to ensure the uxkun number of hikers the monastery can secunimodate and feed in view of the fact that the Luntao Peñk climbing usually uttracts a great number of hiers.

As for this year, alleast

were turned

ber or early December when the hundred hikers degree of humidity is generally away and had to Bed their awa Juw, but by this time there is accommodation elsewhere in the also a very low temperature up nearby nunnerles, although there

seemed to be quite pleased and ed," he said, "that the applica-| to did the hikers. There were notion was to be made, in very different state of affairs iniglit complaints whatsoever.

Y. S. Thave resulted."

· BY •

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

HE proposal to allow buses hornblende-plerite

and

even

and, presumably, even cheap phneolithle reefs may be found

on the Lautae Peak which has was no objection to these other cars into Upper Brook-street, in julning the Po Lin order to case the traie clac- an altitude of over 3,000 feet hikera above the sea level.

Monastery group in the scho-where, i pretty ghastly, one duled climbing.

thinks, <

The strong cold north easterly

fa natural It

a relle of pre-Cambrian sedi- mentary conditions.

Pradnese: What purpose will it server

Myself; The rage will no Indeed that If all sorts of people start doubt tell us later." winds add much to the chilly serenity of the monastery was coming to that hotel by bus, it Coloured coal effect especially when they blow disturbed to a certain extent will not be easy, one feels, tu strongly against the perspiration with the sudden influx of 300 persuade the right people, tielen pily that the Coal Board soaked shirts and sweaters on perяUILA no matter how obser- top people, that those who use coloured coal. Striped cool, In has rejected a plan to sell the backs of the hikers placing vant of the hudhist regulations buses are not so cumpletely im them in most amusing aliver these hikers were. The monaste possible as they are reputed to almost a part of interior decora- crimson and yellow, would be ing. At which

may eventually ery authorities were fully aware be. cause some

At least some of them are thun, especially for children, who from kad colda medical attention.

That is what the hilters tried to avoli this year and they selected early October which in generally not too cold nor too warm to do the climbing.

alma.

of them to suffer of this and were exceedingly not, one Imagines, Or so one would eat more of it. People that require co-operative in rendering cast has been told by the more un would buy lumps as ornaments ance and available facilities thus conventional of one's sequin- for the house and for rock to help the hikers achieve their tences.

Huw is one to cope, gardons, and

the Coal Board netually, if you On the part of the hikers, mennt

see what would roon be able to afford a every effort wan made to help

now 10-storey headquarters, maintain tramurality in the Selenicon

with an annexe bullt of coloured monastery compound."

con). WHAT, you may well ask, is There was no demand nor any From what I understand, there

this Relenleon which the Unstately home hikers have to approach the bargain in return for food and ange of Waggling Parva hinn 18 there anything peopła with monuis accommodation the hikera were glimpsed on the moon, Not to not steal today? A gentle- monastery muthorities ahead for a date which is con- provided with and it would be confure the lay reader with man has been complaining that ventent both

to the monastery most flogent if there were only technical terms, it is a proctos Inuntory paper--- (ho, calix fl and the hikers during the months "take" and no "give".

inceous conglomerate, conisining "tollet paper'")—was stolen from of October and November to en-

this decaslon, le hikera primary relations of Janeous "Usief proof fixtures" on his able Dieni to ntake plans for the themselves subscribed $7. (not origin, cauned by non-organic estate. He should consider him- elimbing.

$10, he stated by Mr Wilors) | disturbances in a region of anti- self lucky that he was not anked Thle a necessary at as not to each towards printing the eling and syncline. It is possible to autograph the spoll. contravene the monastery's wor- passeN, coolle ho to bring a that in this same lunar crater

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