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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1928.

HELEN ADELE CASE.

́ACCUSED CONSTABLES » FOUND GUILTY.

SENT TO PRISON FOR 15 MONTHS,

JUDGE AND "FOUL PERJURY."

After a trial lasting three and a half daya Police Constables John William Clayton and Charles Victor Stevens, both aged 30, of Y Division, Metropolitan Police, were found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by preferring a false charge against Miss Helen Adele, aged 21.

Mr. Justice Humphreys passed sentence of 18 months imprison- nient in the second division in each case.

The ease for the Crown was that when Miss Adele resented the at tentims of Clayton at the Victoria Garage, Victoria. Road, Islington. and threatened to tell a sergeant, the constables "arrested her an a falae charge of using insalting winds and behaviour.

Counsel were?- Prosecution: Mr. Perrival Clarke, Mr. G. D. Roberts and Mr. Anthony Hawke, Defence: Sir Henry Curtis Ben-

helt, K. Mr. St. John Hut chinson, and Me. Derek Curtis Bennett.

Miss Adele was discharged. There was no further danser to her. So far as the alleged conspirators out- side were concerneil could the jury: imagine any reason why they should then put their heads together co concoct a story so full of detail that if it were not true it was liable to be exploded at any moment!

Acting-Sergeant Smith did not re- port that he did not see Clayton on his beat and the jury were there- fore asked to say that they were satisfied he did see Clayton, Was awet night an occasion when every duty was performed with regularity and precision Might is not be that because Acting-Sergeant Smith was not a regular sergeant that advan

time to time and sleeping there at tage was taken of that fact by these night.

two officers, constables like himself." to go to the garage i

She knew the personel of the garage well. and according to her own story had had relations with que of these men, and with other men. She had a great deal to be thankful for to Jack, to Bill, hetony but he did not report it."

Sergeant Smith said he remem bered seeing Clayton because it was just before his refreshment, siner dil no; report at refreshment tiule. But Sergeant Molyneux was sure he

| supposed to Abbott, and ako to à I man of whom they had heard much,

but had not seen, Hayes,

Helen Adele, having been ar rested and brought to the police station, stened to the story told by the constables and said nothing. Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, open- if her story was tene that was a ing his address for the delegee, little.mirious because she had heen! said. "I nm very doubtful whether saying, I want to tell a sergeant.' any jury has been enlled to hear a Her she was at the police more amazing story" than that tortation with not only her original which you have had to listen.

"I submit the defence have don what they need not hay done. They have shown this is a false charge against "the constables. What are the two cases?

grievance that Clayton had on two tights been trying to have relations with her, but also she wis there on a false charge and therefore her grievance is much stronger. says nothing.

I suggest he had not seen Clay.

Mr. Justice, Humphreys, summing up, said the charge was serious and was more serious when it was found that the person, alleged to have conspired together were police. officers.

If we can take any distinction between different classes of perjury. perhaps the muss abominable form an innocent person. of it is that committed to convict

Counsel have said that this is j matter of grave public importance. aroused considerable interest among I am not sure that i. agree. It has some members of the public. shown by the large number of sorts and descriptions of people, letters I have received from all

any of them anonymous. Nu doubt other people connected with the case have received similar She letters.

The case for the prosecution is

Police And Public, that, to prevent Helen Adele from If the conditions of the force telling a superior officer that Clay are such as have been suggested in toil had attempted to have relations this case it is far worse than any with her, these two men made anti-police fanatic has ever suggest false charge against her: let every hody they could know they were going to make it: arrested her at the garage when they might have -arrested her, outside; and suborned Acting-Sergeant Smith, a man of repute also in the force, to commit perjury when he says that at 130 | rain." a.m. Clayton was on his beat.

Case For P.G.'s.

The case for the defence is that this girl was properly charged. She threatened when she was charged that she would make it hut for then, and she goes to the police court next morning and tells a story which I shall show you, if the note of the magistrate's clerk is correct, was untrue in many, particulära..

"One observation made, with which profoundly disagree, was: would mean a verdict of condem-1 thri a verdict of guilty in this case nation of the Metropolitan Police folce. The force consists of same- it would be absurd to suppose you thing like 15,000 to 20,000 men, and could find a body of persons of thatt unser without having in it some mebers unworthy to be in it.

seems to ea verdict of guilty in this case would be no con- demnation of the force as n whole. members of the force, particularly If anything, it would show that

of the detective branch, who were entrusted with the inquiries institut "Further it is suggested thated by the magistrate, had succeed-

ed in bringing to justice two mem- they have brought the public of this bers unworthy to be members of it. country to such a state that nobody

lare say them payi

ed, because it is suggested that con- stables are perjurers and leave their beats at any time and for any time, that their sergeants are prepared to perjure for them, and that act- ing sergents and sergeants do not even go round their bents in the

Is that the truth or is the real truth that it was a true charge, that girl went into the witness box and they knew it, but that when the told her story the position was altered? Then instead of a plen, of guilty and a fine of £4, now that the story, was out they have to sup- port her story. The gang from the garage were prepared to support

After meetings between various persons statements are made and the case comes before you supported by Bill, Abbott Jack, and Park-it," house.

It is said sometimes that the public are at the mercy of the police. Do not forget the police a also very much at the mercy of the públic.

The police, who have to carry out onerous and difficult duties, often surrounded as they are by antagonistic, crowds, are often at the mercy of false charges by a number of people banding together. saying. We will crush this officer by making a false charge "."

The superior officers, under "whou Stevens had worked had constantly had him under their supervision.

"I do not know, unless it is in the Army and Navy, and I doubt very much whether it is even in the Army, if there is any supervision that a man can be under which is so constant, and-properly so strict, as in the Metropolitan Police."

Sergeant "Not Mistaken "

|

Coincidences,

There is a limit to the aumber of coincidences that take pince every 21 hours."

Sir Henry asked if they could believe that Helen Adele was nr rested openly so that everybody could know that there was anfalse charge. Her explanation was that a policeman in uniform thought he could do anything he liked..

"If that is the position of the Metropolitan Police it is quite time something was done.

"If this story, is true, these men ought to suffer and nobody would have sympathy with them. If it is untrue, how much at the mercy of the underworld will the police force. of London become?

Case Against F.C.%.

"If it is found that the gang at the Victoria Garage can join to- gether und by their evidence convict. these two men and show that Smith is a perjurer, it will be joyful read- Stevens and Clayton were of ad-ing for the people who say they aro

afraid of the police.? mirable character. Acting-Sergeant Smith had been many years in the force with nothing against him. He Mr. Clarke, addressing the jury who was so highly thought of that for the prosecution, said the case he was picked out by his superiors was of the greatest importance to. to het as acting-sergeant, and by his | the men and to the Metropolitan equals to represent them on the Police. It was also of the gravest Police Federation Board,

importance to those in a position of life where they were perhaps un- able to protect themselves.

Tragic Miss Adele,

Referring to Mr. Clarke's cross- examination as to Smith's represan tation on that board, Sir Henry said that the suggestion must be that Smith had committed perjury will ask yourselves the reason. If a false charge was made you It was useless for Mr. Clarke to Then you come to inquire what went say that Smith had made a mistake

before the arrest. and to try to get round it like that

That is what makes the whole of the evidence Smith cannot have been mis- taken because he was asked about before you admissible and inlicates it or the evening of July 6th. He that what happened was this made his report on that night and Clayton had made up his mind to reported exactly what he told you arrest the girl to save himself, and in the witness-box about the time Stevens came in to support him. and place where he had seen Clay ton on that night.

Was it the suggestion that Smith

was a dishonest man who represent- ed the men, and if there was any trouble would go and support them 1 Unless that

the WAS covert suggestion behind the cross- examination, what was it?

her story she invented this, charge If when she told the magistrate against the police offers, she would have a very vivid inıngination, great capacity for invention: She mentioned to the magistrate the identity of persons who, she said. had seen her. She mentioned Bill the washer, the boy Parkhouse, and others.

This

"Put out of your minds all ques tions of what the result of your verdict may be. Decide it, as you would decide any other criminal case, upen the evidence.

for a mistake. There is perjury on There is in this case no room

conspirney to bring a false charge on one side or the other. There is a

one side or the other,

Either the girl, with the persons employed at the garage, has con- cceted this untrue story to convict two innocent persons, or Lwo police officers concocted a story to convict an innocent girl. You cannot get away from it. You have to decide on which side the truth lies, and on which side the perjury lies.

P.C.s' Bowed Heads.

For 35 minutes the jury was ab sent, and as 'the foreman announced a verdict of Guilty against both men Clayton and Stevens dropped their heads. It was in this attitude that they listened to the seathing words of the judge. He said :—

The jury have found you guilty on evidence which in my opinion amply justifies the verdict they have found. I think it right to say I agree with that verdict. I believe it to be a true one.

It means that you two men have disgraced the uniform you wore.

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la voices hardly above a whispered, but no conclusions have yet been but heard distinctly in the hushed reached, and further meetings will court both men naked permission to be necessary. see their wives. The judge granted The sobbing of the The request. two women broke out from the Fublic seats,

The Oldham Master Cotton Spin- nets Association has decided to ask the State of Trade Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spin- Miss Adele Slips Away.

trs' Associations to take action to "Above this came the sound of noiganize production in the Ameri how fall, Stevens, half-blinded can cotton spinning trade. It is by tears as he stumbled down the stated that most of the yarn sold stairs leading to the celli. had | is being produced at a loss of Ed collapsed. Warders dragged him to or 30. pound. Approximately 50 his feet; but he could not move. mills in the Oldham district are On the cell stairs, with his head closed indefinitely, and very few

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KC. And Miss Adele.

poor, miserable young Turning to the witnesses for the woman, a tragic, pathctie figure, prosecution, Sir Henry said the first was asked questions by the magia was-Helen Adele, a-girl-of-immoral trate so that her story might be character. He did not wish to say tested. When she had told her story more than was necessary about her, and mentioned these persons, how but she was a girl who for five or was she to know, if it was untrue, six months had been having rela that if any of these people were tions with different men, a girl who sent for they would support hertion-of-appeni-by-their-legal-nd-| spindles is enough to wreck the was frequenting the garage from story?

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