20 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 15

Letters To The Editor

Identifying Independence Mohamed Sopiee identifying the Prisoner Leslie Reade, P. R. Mursell Another Crack at Crevecitur Cyril Ray Child Murders and the Press 'Axed, Rev. Austin......

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Child Murders And The Press Sir, We Have Had Two

dreadful child sex-murders in the last few weeks. The newspapers spread them- selves in columns of fact and comment, but are they not themselves very largely to blame? The more......

Sir,—in A Letter Printed In Your Issue Of September 13

Mr. G. W. R. Thompson makes the following propositions 1. That identification parades are not sanc- tioned by the law (presumably he means that the law forbids them). 2. That......

Identifying The Prisoner Sia,—the Arguments For Mr....

suggestions for improvements in cases in- volving evidence of identification arc even stronger than he makes them, for he has slipped into some significant errors and omissions.......

Another Crack At Crevecceur

SIR,—Anne-Marie Crevecceug misunderstands my ob- jections to her beginning a reeipe for sauce poivrade with 'one ounce of margarine.' I did not write, as she suggests I did, of......

'axed' Sin,—it Would Appear That Your Correspondent (as...

case of a retired Group Captain who wrote an article in a well-known daily newspaper recently) has not heard of the 'Over Forty-Fives' Association, where a man of fifty is......