Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Tribunal Probes. Counsel for Miss Savidge grilled Inspector Collins as to whether he had alternately threatened and cajoled her, called her "Irene," tried to press cigarets upon her, questioned and examined her as to the length and color of her petticoat, and finally asked: "You're really a good girl and you've never...
...period of Miss Savage's examination was 5½ hours. No policewoman was present. She was alone with Inspector Collins and a male shorthand stenographer. She was told that "there's a lot more we want to know about this case," and that the constables who were fined for falsely arresting her "are respectable men with good police records and besides their wives have got to be considered." Inspector...
...Inspector Collins (noting that there is only one spoon): "Irene'll spoon with me, won't you, Irene...