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HYDE PARK

"PERILS.

YARD CHIEFS WIN LIBEL ACTION.

TWO £100 AWARDS.

London, Apr. 17.

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The bel actions brought in the King's Bench Division by Sir Wyndham Childs, the former chief of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard, and Sir William Horwood, the former Commissioner of tho Metropolitan Police, against the New Statcaman ended yesterday. with the award of £100 to each of the plaintiffs.

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The actions arose out of an article In the New Staterman October 13 referring to the Leo Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The article contained the following passage:

"Such an Inquiry might be of great value if it put an end to tho Horwood-Childs-Bodkin methods- an end, that is to say, to the Hyde Park scandals, to the creation of crime where there is no crime, and to the attempted enforcement by the police of moral standards which have nothing whatever to do with the preservation of public order."

Evidence was given yesterday by Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions since July, 1920. He said that he had noth- ing to do with administration of Scotland Yard, nor had he anything to do with the enforcement of the regulations concerning public order In Hyde Park, "save in one excep- tional case, on the express instruc- tions of the Secretary of State."

"Not to Patrol the Grass," - Chief Inspector Duncan, of Hyde Park, Bald that only two of the sixty constables. did duty in pluin clothes. Instructions were given to them not to patrol the grass. The constables were not told to cok about for acts of indecency.

Cross-examined by Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for the Editor of the New Statcamon, Inspector Duncan did not agree that it was dangerous for respectable men and women,to be In the park after dark. Sir Patrick-Assuming you had

a daughter of 19 years of age, would you object to her walking with a young or old man in the park after dark?

Inspector Dancan-If the man was respectable, I should not ob ject.

"Would you be willing to sit down with a lady in the park?" naked Sir Patrick.

"I would, and I often do," replied the Inspector.

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Sir Patrick-I suppose plain clothes men know you quite well by sight? Yes, certainly. (Laughter.)

He did not agree that people might do what they liked out of sight of the paths, but admitted that the employment of plain clothes men afforded in opportunity to blackmailers tą pose as police- men.

Asked what his instructions to the constaules were, the Inspector replied: "Not to arrest couples merely because they are lying in a disgusting position, but when some specific act of indecency, which must of necessity offend any de cent-minded person, takes place."

Addressing the jury, Sir Patrick Hastings said that the New Staten- man article was the culmination of a quite carefully-written camp- aign against a system which allow- ed regulations in Hyde Park to be used in such a way as to give rise to what they must all agree was really a lamentable state of affairs. Every member of the jury, he anid, must have made up his or her mind whether it was safe to all in Hyde Park at night time. "Would any one of you like your grown- up daughter." asked Sir Patrick of the jury-composed of ten men and two women-"to sit at eleven o'clock at night in Hyde Park with a friend "

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"You may have that undying courage, which is characteristic of Inspector Duncan, or the modified heroism of Sir William Horwood, who would walk, but not sit, in the park, but it is no good anyone tell- ing me that you have not got your own view as to whether Hyde Park is a safe place at night time,

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"There are thousands of domestic servants and young men living in apartments," added Sir Patrick, "who have nowhere to go at night, and it is a scandal beyond bearing that Hyde Park should be a place to which no respectable doméstic servant should go with her young man without being warned of the grave riak they run. That is a

Bensational Cases,

standard of public morals which matter of common knowledge to Statesman, he added, It was all

men "You must

police had nothing to do with the preser- have all of us and Ju intolerable.

wrong that plain clothes

fn. Hydo Park" vation of pubile order?" "Who is responsible for the should be allowed to creep up bo supervison.

Justice Horridge told The jury found that the words methods that make a plain clothes hind seats on which couples wore Mr.

the jury in his summing up. In the article in the New States. man the arbiter as to how far a seated.

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., for "You cannot allow anything people man were defamatory, and, as young couple should go in their love affairs? I call plain clothes the plaintiffs, addressing the jury, might like to do to take place, stated, awarded £100 to Sir. Wynd mon spies, and blackmail hangs suggested that the clear meaning Can you say, because there have ham Childs and £100 to Sir Wil over the head of every eltizen who of the words in the newspaper been three sensational cases in am Horwood. Judgment was en- of tered accordingly, the question of article was that the police were er which there was acquittal goes to Hyde Park at night."

In the opinion of the New perts in the manufacture of false the persons accused, that the plain-coats being left to the Taxing Mas-

evidence,

I tiffe had attempted to enforce a ter.