The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-19
SWORN FOE TO CRIMINALS.
CHIEF DETECTIVE OF SCOTLAND
YARD RETIREs FROM BUSINESS.

Henry Moore was Long n Terror to
LOndon's TransGreSsOrs-FniIu to
Find Jack the Ripper His One
Grief in Life-SOme of the Causes
CeIebre in Which He Bore an Inn
pOrtant Part.
From the New York Press.
After thirty years of bright, hard work
Henry Moore, chief detective inspector Of
Scotland yard. has been retired. The
story of his exploits and successes is al
most a complete history of that famous
home of England's criminal Investigation
| department known 20 the public as Scot
| land yard and to the nest of detectives
| themselves as C. O.-central office. Most
| detectives have a speciality in criminal
calendar, or perhaps more than one, 10
| which they devote themselves, and conse-
| quently do inferior work in lines outside
| their own, but Moore always did credit to
| himself in whatever work fell to his hands.
| He admits one failure, however. and that
| is that he did not catch Jack the Ripper.
| Still, there is some satisfaction to him in
the thought that even if he didn't succeed
in getting the fend of Whitechapel no one
else did any better.
1.-THE police" says Moore, "were handi-
| capped in their work. It was almost i'm
| possible to get anything like trustworthy
statement while every crank in England
was sending postcards or writing on walls.
| The class of women we had to deal with
| would have told any number of stories for
| shilling and It was impossible TO believe
| any woman, owing to the hysterical state
| of fear they get themselves into. If we
| had tried 10 keen under o1leeyx-a ffo,, fl,,
persons we were told were Jack the Rip
/ per we should have needed every soldier
in the British army to have become a
| detective. We have in the east end for
eigners from every corner of the earth
| and when they hate they will tell such lies
| as Will make your hair stand up"
An American Crook.
For series of daring bank robberies a
| gang of American crooks, headed by a clev-
er criminal named Lynch, were sentenced
| TO long terms of penal servitude in
| Charlestown prison, Boston, Mass. They
were employed in making drain that was
to carry the sewage of the prison to the
| sea, half mile away. Lynch conceived
| the idea of crawling through when the
| drain was made, taking a rope and then
| pulling the other members of the gang
| after him. In order to do this success
| fully they had to burrow under the prison
wall. When all was ready away went
| IASAlCu Will iHe rope, ana InaI night lie
| succeeded in pulling eight prisoners after
| him. The ninth, however was stout
| chap, and when he came to a tight bend
| he stuck there, and when found by the
warders was dead All the prisoners es-
capped to the woods. where they hid for
nearly year, while Lynch, who made
| himself a suit of clothes out of old horse
| blankets, got to New York and on a cattle
| ship came TO London.
After he had been in London three
| months the American detectives got the
| tip and they sent over to Moore a de-
| scription of Lynch and warrant for his
| arrest. Moore hunted London, but all to
no purpose. Keeping his eyes open, how
| ever, he went about his ordinary work.
| The description was meager but one
night while passing the "Three Nuns
public house in Aldgate he thought a man
| standing outside was Lynch. Moore had
| been to America, and while there he had
| learned to initiate the curious whistle with
| which the warders used to bring in their
| prisoners. Quick as thought Moore gave
| the whistle and the man at once became
startled and looked around anxiously
while his companion simply went on talk
| ing and could not make out the reason Of
| his friends agitation. Moore bounced up
| on Lynch before he had time TO escape and
the next afternoon took him before Sir
| John Bridge at Bow street.
A Priests Murder.
Toward the end of September five years
ago two foreigners took rooms at the Ho-
tel des VTais Amis in Old Compton street,
| Soho, London. One was an elderly Span
| ish priest known as Father Sequi, and
| the other was his secretary and valet a
! young Frenchman named Ravellott After
| being in London a short time Father Sc
| uui told several of his friends that Ravel-
lott did not like England and was about to
| return to France. II shall be sorry to lose
| him; he is so kind to me, and can hardly
get on without him. said Father Seoul.
Ravellott himself also announced that he
| was going to return to France, and a few
days later, il was thought, as he was not
| SEEN that he had done so.
| A day or so afterwaTd one of the cham
| bermaids, on entering Father Scouts
| apartments, found that he had commit ted
| suicide by hanging himself from the bed
| post. An alarm was raised. the police and
| a doctor sent for and the latter expressed
the opinion that it was a case of suicide;
| that the dead man had tied large silk
handkerchief round his neck, then attach
| ed il to the bed post and, sliding off, had
| strangIed himself. This opinion was con-
firmed, for in the pocket of the dead priest
was found a letter giving his reasons for
the rash act and stating how he iuteaded
20 accomplish his object. The would-be
suicide signed the letter in his real name
| viz Louis Gabriel.
The Letter Was Forged.
The matter, however, came before Scot
land Yard owing to the fact that several
| hundred francs and a letter of credit
| known to be in possession of the suicide
| had disappeared. Moore went carefully
over the details and made experiments
| with the silk handkerchief round his own
neck, but he failed to place himself IN the
strange position in which the dead priest
was found, and in the result he refused to
| believe in the theory of suicide Then. of
| g.. T.
the letter left by the dead man. That
everybody said. was one great stumbling
| block to the theory OF murder. Moore
took the letter home. sat with II IN front
OF him the whole of one night and the
following day, and after something like
thrty-six hours deep thought he wired to
Spain. The telegram was addressed 10
the bankers where the priest had obtained
the cash and the letter OF credit and asked
that they would telegraph Moore the nct-
I ttaI LAT Ia airrafNra Of no grrH