Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...
...actual age of Irene Marjory Savidge is 22. The three "naïve" sentences in her testimony which appeared to carry greatest conviction were: "I thought that at Scotland Yard they could summon the King if they wanted to. It's a big place with big people there. ... I thought I had to do everything they told me. . . . When I got home and was told that I needn't have gone to Scotland Yard to be questioned-well, that was when I fainted...
Model Inquisitor. So outrageous were the reported details of Miss Savidge's interrogation at Scotland Yard, that when her inquisitor, Inspector Collins, appeared before the Extraordinary Tribunal, it was hoped by thousands of Britons that he would turn out to be an inexperienced or at least an exceptionally bad inspector. The nation's confidence in its police was well-nigh shattered at one blow when Inspector Collins established that he is an officer of 32 years' experience, 93 times complimented by Judges from the Bench for his efficiency, and never before complained against by police or public...
...third degree methods, if they were used, had been applied not by an inexperienced officer, not by a bad or exceptional officer, but by a model inspector, typifying the best men now to be found at Scotland Yard...
...grilling continued, Inspector Collins was caught in one palpable lie, and appeared to arouse little credulity for certain of his statements. When some 2,000 pages of testimony had been taken from numerous witnesses, the case of Scotland Yard was summed by Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett: "I do not want it supposed that the police have done anything of which they are ashamed. ... If you impute bad faith to these officers of Scotland Yard, everything becomes possible. But if you assume that there are at Scotland Yard certain traditions of honor not likely to be broken, then other matters...