Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record. . . . A most unfortunate impression was created when a Laborite asked "Does corruption exist at Scotland Yard?" and Sir William Joynson-Hicks triumphantly...
...friend and supporter of Governor Smith's, a State Senator. The defense was an alibi, that the defendant was not in Georgia after February, 1926. Governor Smith started to gather up the papers on the case as though satisfied with the alibi. The U. S. Postal Inspector who had arrested Saunders, passed a letter to the Governor. The latter eyed it, eyed Saunders sharply, swore him, assured him that perjury was as serious in New York as swindling in Georgia, showed him the letter...
...Inspector Collins denied that he had threatened, admitted that he had called Miss Savidge "Irene," said that she had asked for cigarets herself, swore that she had voluntarily stood up to show her pink petticoat, and denied asking Miss Savidge if she had ever...
...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...
...Conservation Board of New York State, collectively, but its chief game protector, one Llewellyn Legge, and an underling inspector named Morgan Leland, were responsible, individually, for the alleged injustice...