The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-24
THE WORK OF DETECTIVES.
THE UNKECOVEKED PROPER
~ OF Ts1E BANK or
ENGLAND.
$siii nO Investigation by the Police
Com niissiOners--Strong points in
the Evidence 10 sustain the
Charges.

the Evidence TO sustain the
Charges.
The police commissioners met rs usual
Wednesday, at New York, but studiousy
passed over the bank of England charges
against Capt. Irving and detective Farley.
Commissioner Charlick stayed away as on
the previous day, and his absence was
made the excuse Tor delaying the invcs,-
CATION. Another application was made to
Commissioner Gardner for permission to
examine the papers containing the charges.
lie said that one of the Commissioners had
taken them home TO read. This was the
story told ON Tuesday. He claimed that
the only testimony to implicatc the officers
Is that OF mcdonnell. He considers this
worthless, rs il was Given after Macdon-
ncll's conviction.
Besides, says Mr.. Gardner. this il a
matter even if there was ANYTHING in it
which is for the court The board can
only put these men off the force. If a
police officer steals we cannot discipline
him ; we arrest him and hand him over to
the district attorney, and should he be con-
victed that ends the NATTER and he is no
longer member of the force"
A Wcll-knOwn official said that MacDon-
nell's confession was the document on
which the English authorities rely to sus-
tain their charges. They incorporated it
with the other papers merely to con firm
the testimony of the Post Office agents and
cable telegraph operators.
THE REGISTERED MONEY LETTER
and the dispatches which Macdonald is
alleged to have sent from Europe to Capt.
Irving and Detective Farley comprise the
principal proof against them in the esti-
nation of the complanants. The solicitors
for the Bank of England say that the rea.
son that they have not presented criminal
charges Is because they were not instructed
to do so, They think that duty more be
fitting the police board, if they believe the
charges to be true.
The mysterious letter addressed "Friend
Phil is said to have been dated in London
by Macdonald on the 25th of August last.
The records of the postofiicc show that
registered letter to Philip Farley was
mailed in London on the Goth of August.
II was received here on the 18th of Septem-
her and forwarded to Station A. 1t was
delivered at 10 Prince street on the 9th of
September. The name
PHILIP FARLEY
appears ON the Post Office book in purple
ink as an acknowledgment of its delivery
by the carrier, In his letter, beginning
"friend Phil, mcdonnell speaks of hay
ing made certain combinations, and of the
success which awaits him in the future.
He feels sorry that he could not write be-
fore, and mentions the enclosure Of S40O
TOR the use OF the person to whom the let
ter was addressed. lie announced that he
had sent the money in registered letter
for fear of the thieves in the Post Office,
and closes by describing the fine voyage he
had from South America, and his 'fun
with the girls on the steamer.
Further facts were elected concerning
the strong efforts made by Capt Irving and
Detective Farley to be deputizcd to arrest
mcdonnell. Marshal Fisk said that he
understood from his chief deputy, Mr.
Kennedy, that when the detectives applied
for tie United States warrant they said
that they would waive all claim to the re-
ward offered for mcdonnell if it was given
to them Mr.. De Costa, one of the Bank
of Engand's solicitors, wanted Detective
lINKERToN
to receive the warrant. Irving and Far
ley threatened the latter that if they were
not allowed to make the arrest no one else
should. A government official subsequent
ly suggested TO Mr.. Marbury, counsel TO
the British Consul, that the police detect
ives were the proper persons to make the
warrant, and that gentleman recommended
it he given to them.
"phil' llargreaves was named bv a GER
tain official as the person who bore mes
sages from mcdonnell TO the detectives
while the forger was in Jail A drinking
place in Grand street was the rendezvous
for Macdonnell's friends during his i'm
prisonment in the Jail. They congregated
there nightly, and received communications
and sent them to the prisoner
HAVE TIE DETECTIVE POLICE BEEN IN
LEAGUE WITH THE THIEVES
The serious charges preferred against the
detective police growing out of the arrest
of the Bank of England forgers, and the
alleged appropriation by the detectives of a
part of the booty found in the possession of
the forgers, have occasioned very general
comment upon the administration of this
branch of the municipal machinery. But
those at all conyersant with police affairs
are not surprised at these disclosures, even
admitting the allegations to be true 1t is
no novel thing for professional detectives
to compound felonies with professional
thieves, and that such practices have been !