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I. C. (drawing up his chair): "So you never cuddled with Sir Leo in the park? Stand up there! Let's see how long your dress is!"
S.: "I will stand up if it is necessary" (stands).
I. C.: "What color petticoat you got on? Tell us what you were wearing that night in the park. . . . You're really a good girl and you've never had a man, have you? ... But there are several things one can do without really sinning. Don't be afraid to tell us ... (drawing his chair closer and putting an arm around the back of hers). . . . Come on! Give us a demonstration of what happened in Hyde Park . . . (laying a hand on her knee). . . . When we were young we had a good time ourselves. We're only making these inquiries for the sake of the police officers whose conduct is being inquired into. . . . Come on!"
Miss S. (after breaking down in hysterics and being allowed to go home where she encountered her father): "Oh why, why did they pick on me!"
Representing New Scotland Yard before the Extraordinary Tribunal, last week, was Mr. Norman Birkett, one of the highest feed and keenest criminal lawyers in Great Britain. He managed to elicit from Miss Savage the admission that her fiance had never opposed her occasional dinings out with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, and that on the original occasion in Hyde Park, Sir Leo had kissed her: "It was just a peck. Not a passionate kiss." Pressed to justify her dinners with Sir Leo, she said, squaring small shoulders, "I am a very free and independent young woman."
The investigation continued, while onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay Mac-Donald, Leader of the Labor Party, interested himself in the cause with a view to making it the point d'appui for a major Parliamentary attack on the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin which directly controls Scotland Yard through the Home Office.