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VICTORIA REGINA Centenary of the Queen who changed the face of England
By
G. M. YOUNG that morality, the perfect ex-
The Centenary of the Accession of
Queen Victoria is celebrated to-day-
bourne, child of a more genial and less censorious time. It would be nearer the truth to say
emplification in Victoria and her Consort of those standards by which English life had come to be regulated, såved everything.
Before the Queen could earn
N the year 1709 Swift published a pamphlet un- the love of her people at large, der the title: "A Project she had to win their approval." She did not begin well: her tofor the Advancement of Re- demonstrative attachment to the ligion and the Reformation Whig Government was not well of Manners." Something regarded by a public which was led me the other day to read longing to see the Tories back. it again, and as I read, this once at least the Commander-in- Chief had to deal sharply with fancy occurred to me. disloyal talk in an officers' mess; and only her marriage, coming just before the end of the Whig Swift died in 1745; if he had ascendency, and the prudence of returned to earth a hundred Prince Albert, saved her from years later, and gone about in what might have been the circles with which he was awkward encounter with the most familiar, mixing with exultant victors. Cabinet Ministers and Church
Under his sage guidance, she dignitaries; merchants, clergy- men, and writers of distinction; equired the art and science of constitutional government, for and visiting the Universities and
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I don't think you sent me the wallpaper I ordered!"
THIRD
DEGREE
·By
Hugh Brady
sensational
loning, to this effect:
ย
was
life: wherein, without question legend of the Queen in her home, The report fald down very definite flattery, she hath no as the exponent, and almost the recommendations concerning quest- superior." "Thla damned morality
everything," said
ruin
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A rigid instruction should be issued to the police that questioning of a prisoner or a person in custody about any crime or offence with which he is, or may be, charged, should be permitted.
concerned as the magistrates that the prisoner shall have fair play.
to prove their case aguinst the accused. and before they have evidence to arrest a man they have every right to question him and ask him to arraunt for big movements.
In his book on Scotland Yard, Sir John Moylan, who has been for many years Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District and Courts, says:
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"It difficult to elicit facts, either for or against a person, without questioning him, and it is next to impossible to ascertain what u person really knows or means to say without a degree of persistence and repetition in questioning which can hardly avoid being compared to a cross- examination and runs the risk of being denouneed as 'third degree.'
It is right and proper that - the police should be kept in their place as the servants of the people, but few right-minded persons will con- have tend that the pollee should their hands Wed behind them in the battle with crime.
Boy's Confession
ONE
country houses of England; he which she had, indeed, would have found our religion devoted to her duty she
prime qualifications. advanced and our manners re- fearlessly truthful. But she was obstinate, narrow, prejudiced: and there is something to be said for those who thought at So striking and so profound is the time, and think now, that the change that Swift, who was when the Prince Consort's in- by not easily deceived, finding that fluence
replaced profligacy, irreligion, and public Disraeli's, she unlearnt the rules | corruption no longer furnished more readily than she had learnt
The Cheltenham torso mystery, the them. themes for censure, would pro-
Brighton trunk murders, the Soho bably have taken up his pen
women murders-to name only a few cases entalled the collection of The appalling growth of the again to castigate our hypocrisy.
I am just old enough to
hundreds of statements. If every- If he had asked us how it ha narcotic evi in America in theme about, we should have member the echoes, as it were,
one interviewed stood on his rights which are that he need say nothing past several years hrs
been had to acknowledge that the of the republican talk of the
until he has engaged a solfeltor- simultaneous with the "re-example and influence of Queen dangerous perhaps. But it was 'Seventies. It WITH not very
many a gulity person would esenpe Ta recent Leeds mur- Justlec. habilitation" of China's lost Anne, on which he relied to
A The Crown was under
der trial an acquitted In many countries the law provides provinces in the north-east, effect the reformation, had had earnest.
suspected or under suspicion must answer a magistrale's according to authorities on this remarkably little to do with it; a cloud. The Queen had ceased prisoner alleged that the police that a person
that it had come over us like a
Constitutional had practised third-degree questions under pain of punishment, problem of dope control, who change of weather to which Sovereign in whose serene, un- methods to extort a confession. In this country it is for the police make no apology for the obvious causes innumerable contribute; biassed, integrity the country
What Is the third degree? Ten |implication. In fact, they make but that, by a singular provi- lnd once confided; and she had
years ago there WOS accusations of
Parliamentary debate ugly dence, we now had on the Throne not yet become
allegations by a Miss variety. Recently AL the young Queen who was really Mother and Empress, the oldest following
of all living monarchs and the Sovidge that two Scotland Yard sessions of the
such as he believed his of League
had subjected her Sovereign to be:
head and symbol of the greatest detectives
third-degree methods in connection Nations' Opium Advisory Com-
"I do not talk," he wrote, of Empires.
with the caso in which she mittee the Japanese representa-
But round the figure of the acquitted on a charge of indecency "of her talent for government, tive was indignant when the
her love of the people, or any Sovereign,whose dealings, after in Hyde Park.
Th comcers were exonerated by Chinese representative alleged other qualities that are pure all, with Ministers, Ambassa
ly regal; but of her piety, dora,
and foreign the Commission subsequently up- that the Japanese Army was
pointed to make inquiries, but as actually carrying into China's
charity, temperance, conjugal Princes were known only to result the Rules for the Guidance love, and whatever other vir- fow, and their lips sealed, there of the Police in seeking evidence interior vast quantities of
tucs do best adorn a private had grown up long ago the were tightened up. dangerous drugs with which to overcome the natural animosity of the people or, literally, to put
author, of English morality, moral in- It to sleep. Mr. Frank C.
will The legend of her Mel- fluence persists, inverting the Waldrop, writing in the British
truth, which is that the English edition of the Cosmopolitan,
middle classes, freeholders and agrees with Mr. Stuart Fuller, heroin is produced daily. This householders who raised up and evidence is fairly conclusive that pulled down Ministries at their American observer on the although the Japanese authori-pleasure, demanded a virtuous League Opium Advisory Con- ties may not actually encourage Sovereign with a decorous Court
NE of the most amazing cases mitter, who asserts bluntly: "As the traffic in this dangerous, and a well-ordered family life.
I can recall of a person sub- to the production of raw opium, indeed murderous commodity, Swift, however, would have
mitting tamely long questioning without protest was whien 15-years- the information which we have they are not taking any very found the legend useful. He
old Harold Jones was suspected of received in my country, indicates drastic measures to eradicate it. would have held it serviceable
He was that in the provinces of China It is well-known that the profits to religion and manners that
the murder in 1921 of an eight-years- old girl at Abertillery, placed on trial and acquilted. The where there is no Japanese in- from this death-dealing industry good behaviour could be
Scotland Yard men were certain of the boy's guilt, and their belief was fluence, a sincere effort has been are immense, for there are many commended, and illustrated, by reading.
when Jones thousands of unfortunate people reference to the practice of the
tragically vindicated murdered a second child a few weeks made to reduce the production who become addicted to this Sovereign, that children should Sprayed with Tear-Gas
confessed to both of raw opium and that this effort particular form of vice which grow up believing that the Queen THIRD-DEGREE methods there later, and then
bealing prisoners | crimes. has met with surprising success. kills as surely 33 any other wished all her people to be good,
Browne and Kennedy, it will be the face; confining them in very cold remembered, were both hanged for When we come, however, to the poison, and with untold agonics and nurseries regulated by the with a rubber hose; striking them in provinces under Japanese control for the victim. The remarkable dictum: The Queen is always or hot cells; suspending them head the murder of an Essex police con-
punctual.
downwards while spraying them stable, and it is generally admitted or influence, we find a very thing is that so many apparently
sensible and balanced people Whether Victoria, less happily with tear-gas; and almost blinding that elever questioning by the police them with the glare of arc-lights led to their downfall. There was different state of affairs. In the turn to narcotics for stimulation married to a less far-sighted, shone full in their faces throughout no suggestion, however, of third- Browne did not three north-eastern provinces, or for some reason or another serious man, could have filled so hours of remorseless cross-examinu-degree methods.
talls, but his friends did,
and that is to say. Manchuria, we which, very frequently, is trivial perfectly the part assigned to tion.
A legislative commission which has Kennedy was so keen to place the that he find that the area designated by and is never rational. But that her by the moral requirements the new regime now functioning is the case. The harm which of her people is a speculation not been inquiring into the methods of blame on his confederate
proposed the abolition of third de- The murder in January 1936 of in that region for the lawful the narcotic traffic has cone and perhaps worth pursuing. The the New York State police recently helped in the undoing of both,
Red Max, who was killed in a Soho Since opium-poppy cultivation in 1937 is doing in du increasing degree fact remains that she, or they re
the Savidge Commission house and his body dumped by the was 156,061 acres, as compared America is the responsibility together, did fill it, and even im- to 133,333 acres in 1936, an in- of unscrupulous racketeers and prove upon it; he, by his keen gave its findings, allegations of third-roadside at St. Albans, ind an un-
taste and intellectual breadth, degree methods have been made usual sequel. the ineffective control of such
against the police forces in this she, by her natural galety and country. But in only one case, so grim-visaged cx-Chief Inspector crease of 17 per cent.: and that authorities as those in Manchu-{ frank good humour, mitigating far as I can discover, was it suggested Sharpe found much more than they unlawful cultivation has reached kuo, it is afirmed. Is it any somewhat the censorious and that violence had been used.
were looking for during that inquiry, Americans such a point that the regime wonder that
and the results proved conclusively are vigilant austerity in which so That one conaldiers that in London the value of close interrogation. referred to found it necessary commencing to look with
than 1,000
Scores of people-mostly allens- detectives daily seeking for Informa- were questioned, and every day into on February 3, 1937, to issue a suspicion upon Japanese who rent a part of English society alone there are more
lay, bound.
tion, it is satisfactory to rentise that the police net fell men and women public warning to unlicensed insist that they are doing every-
charges of bullying and browbeating who were wanted for all kinds of cultivators... Last year I said thing in their power to destroy
made only occasionally. Day offences. Many whom the police after day the cases heard in the had been seeking for years were sent
to prison or deported. courts disclose that the police are au
To Hide Other Crimes ful, noble, bounteous work or
KNOW of one murder case. other, if you trust the papers.
where tho police word different She is doing alms-deeds in the almost certain, on, nix Highlands: she meets beggars occasions, that the man they were in her rides at Windsor: she questioning was the guilty party. All six men, In turn, had brought writes verses in albums, or themselves into the zone of suspicion draws sketches, or is mis by their statements; but eventually taken for the housekeeper by the thorough work of the police some blind old woman, or she established that the men were only
secking to cover up other crimes. runs up a hill as if he wero a .mainly burglary-and were not child. Who finds fault with concerned in the murder at all, these things? He would be a cynic, he would be white- livered, and would have blood
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If a prisoner expresses a wish to make a voluntary statement he should be cautioned, offered writing materials, and left to write without being overlooked, questioned, or prompted. Compared with this, the procedure said to be frequently adopted by the American police to extract statements re- from suspects
makes sensational
to the committee, 'Where Japan- this narcotic flow at its source? The qualities with which the ese influence advances in the Far Is it any wonder that some are legend loved to adorn her were Eust what goes with it? Drug commencing to ask themselves not those which inspire awe in a traffic. This continues to be the whether there is not some deep | nursery.. cuse."
and sinister motive in what they "There is our Queen again," It is no longer a secret that consider the Japanese pretence Nowman wrote, when more than when the military. forces fune of sincerity? For, just as surely half her reign was still before tioning In Manchukuo occupied as though they were to bombard her,
A im-American cities with guns and northern Charhar there
"who is so truly and justly mediately followed "a forced bombs, the narcotic trallickers popular; she roves about in Increase in the area ROWN toare killing American people. the midst of tradition and oplum-poppy production; and And American opluton is harden-!
romance; she scatters myths morphine factories were started ing into conviction that If the and legends from her as she goes along; she is a being of poetry, and you might be sho fairly scoptical whether had any personal existence. She is always at some beauti-
int
onco in Charhar by the Japanese Government is not Japanese." In one such factory, actually responsible for this according to statements made | crime, against civilluation, at public at Geneva, fifteen times least it is not doing what it the world's legitimate need of might to put a stop to it.
ure
A skilled band of questioners under
Despite the occasional allegations, then, that third-degree methods have bren employed, most people will, I consider, agree that our police forces serva us well.
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