Direct versus Circumstantial Evidence
| Published date | 01 October 1933 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3300600412 |
| Date | 01 October 1933 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Direct versus Circumstantial Evidence
By A. H.
WEEDON
Police Sergeant,
Leighton
Buzzard
A
BOUT
seven years ago on the edge of one of the largest
.Ll..midland industrial towns, a certain builder, who shall be
nameless, conceived the idea of borrowing some money, with
which he speculated on building some hundred bungalows,
letting them, and then offering them for sale as an attractive
investment.
They
were rather pretty looking places from the
outside. But the interiors were not altogether reliable; and,
when the fact is taken into consideration that the rent and
rates came to
33S.
6d. per week, one can easily see how dis-
illusioned were those unfortunate people, who had been hood-
winked into buying them, especially when, after a short time,
they were obliged to lower their rents by some
lOS.
in the
hopes of getting atenant. Many of the purchasers were
obliged to hand their affairs over to an agent, owing to being
in residence some distance away, and the difficulty encountered
in collecting the rents.
The
outcome of this was, that no decent people would
stop longer than they could possibly help, and eventually,
,Bungalowtown,' as I will call it, came to be inhabited by the
lowest type of people, which seemed to include gipsies, rag
and bone collectors and the scum of all the towns of the
county.
In
fact, one individual came there to live direct from
a common lodging house, and brought twenty-one other
lodgers, making the bungalow itself into a kind of a common
lodging house. When he was told that this could not be al-
lowed, the lodgers (mostly of the roadster type), promptly
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