The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-12
FAMOUS SCOTLAND YARD
CHANGES IN THIS CELEBRATED
FORCE OF ENGLISH DETECTIVES.
"Reminiscences Of Henry Moore, Late
Senior Chief InspectOr-Experi-
ences with Criminals.
London Daily Telegraph.

London Daily Telegraph.
One by one familiar faces are disappear
ing from the detective branch of New Scot
land Yard which Is still known as the
Criminal Investigation Department, presid-
ed over by DR.. Anderson. The latest officer
to retire on pension is Henry Moore, senior
chief inspector, who has just completed
thirty and half years service in the metro
politan police. He leaves behind him one or
two colleagues only who can recall the
early history of the department, subsequent
to its reorganization by Howard Vincent,
as he then was, when the late Superintend-
ent Williamson was still the occupant or
the little room on the first floor of the iso-
lated brick building in the middle of Great
Scotland Yard-a place which suffered Sc
rious damage by one of the dynamite explo-
sions. Williamson, the level headed, was
succeeded by the late Superintendent Shore.
a man who was credited with an intimate
knowledge of the criminal world, but who.
upon his resignation. developed an extraor-
dinarily bad memory for faces. Shore was
replaced by the present very efficient su-
perintendent, Donald Swanson, who was
also conte nporary with Williamson. Chief
Inspector Hare remains. too. with one or
two others who were juniors in the dyna-
has passed into the hands of new school
of men, and it may be said that they are
| more strictly under the control of their de-
| partmental chiefs than was formerly the
case.
OF what stuff was the old type Of detective
made. If we may take Mr.. Moore as an ex-
| ample? His career, everybody admits, who
has followed his work. has been of highly
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| praise has been given to him not only by
| home secretaries. the public prosecutor
| judges, coroners. commissioners OF police
| and his fellow-detectives. who are not bad
| judges of a mans qualities, but by expert
| professional criminals-men OF education,
who. adopting nefarious courses. are known
| as the classical members of their fra
| ternity But. above all other descriptions of
| work. Mr.. Moore has devoted himself to
| the unraveling Of mysterious murder clews,
| until he has been recognized as an author
| ity, and his name has. theref fore. been as
| ISOLATED with many cases that are still fresh
| in the public recollection
HEREDITARY INSTINCT.
A good deal of his instinct must have
been hereditary. for his father was also in
the metropolitan police, in which he re-
manned for twenty-six years. practically the
whole period having been passed in Lewis
| ham district. in the p division, where
Moore. sr.. may still be recalled by his cog
| HoIneH OF honest Jonfl. Inc son, VINO
| was born in Northamptonshire in 1888. spent
| his childhood and received his education at
Lewisham, in the grammar school, and
| started life as a clerk on the Southeastern
| and also the London, Chatham and Dover
| railways. He also acquired city experience
| in a wholesale silk linen warehouse
| ter the force on April p. 1865. and he began
| duty in the W divisiOn, at Croydon, and
| shortly afteTward he was made station act
Inc ant ct nc half he, he
/ promoted TO sergeant in August, 1872 and
was transferred to Kentish Town. In the Y
| division. There he remained and az High
| gate for two years. and afterward he re-
| turned to the p division. where. in 1878, he
| became ar inspector in uniform
| An idea was once held at Scotland Yard
| that detectives should be men OF superior
| education. but an experiment I'm that direc-
! ton CONVINCED the authorities that police
duty Ia Uniform Is an essential part OF the
| training. and wide knowledge OF london
Is desirable. Mr.. Moore had the advantage