The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-24
FAMOUS AS A DETECTIVE.
Senior Chief Inspector of Scotland
Yard Has Just Retired.


One by one familiar faces are disap-
pearing from the detective branch of New
Scotland Yard which is stin known as the
criminal investigation department presid-
ed over by Dr. Anderson. The latest Of
ficer to retire on pension is Henry Moore,
senior chief Inspector, who has just COM
pleted thirty and half years service in
the metropolitan police.
OF what stuff was the old type of de-
tectives made, If we may take Mr.. Moore
as an example? His career, everybody ad-
mits who has followed his work, has been
of highly successful character. This de-
served need of praise has been given to
him not only by home secretaries, the pub
lie prosecutor, judges, coroners commits
sioners of police and his fellow detectives
who are not bad judges of a mans quail
ties, but by expert professional criminals
men of education, who, adopting nefarious
courses, are known as the classical mem
bers of their fraternity. But, above all
other descriptions Of work, Mr.. Moore has
devoted himself to the unraveling of mys-
terious murder cases, until ne has been
recognized as an authority, and his name
has, therefore, been associated with many
cases that are still fresh in the public rec
objection.
Many of the cases in which he has been
prominently concerned during the past
couple Of decades have not yet died out of
public recollection. One of his earliest was
the notorious Wimbledon poisoning TRACE
DIV. when DR.. Lamson, in 1881, admins
tered aconite in a capsule to his crippled
cousin, Percy Malcolm John, a school boy
and afterward coolly walked into Scotland
Yard. never thinking That he would be de-
tanned, or that guilt could be brought home
to him.
PERHAPS no officer had more anxious
work to discharge in connection with the
so-called Jack the Ripper Whitechapel
murders than Mr.. Moore, but he Is reluct-
ant to talk of those trying times, though
in common with his colleagues he has
formed a shrewd surmise as to the identity
of the actual miscreant who is now dead.
Still more recently he was engaged IN
running to earth at Toulon the French
man Ravellot, who in October, 1894, MUIR
dered in Old Compton street, Father Ga
briel T. SEOUL. Then, again, upon the
murder of Antoine Brosetti, at a house in
Castle street, Long Acre, in November
1897, it was Mr.. Moore who secured the
arrest near Turin of Giuseppe Ravetti
who is now undergoing a sentence of thir-
ty years Imprisonment for the horrible
crime, the motive of which was to secure
the old shoemaker's boarded gold. Mr.
Moore appeared also in the proceedings
against DR.. Collins, charged with having
caused the death of Mrs. UzieNi.
Murder. alone, however. has not been
the retiring inspectors speciality. 1t IS
sufficient TO recall his investigation of the
Langtry Jewel case, and the part which
he and Inspector Richards played in trac-
ing the perpetra tors of the great stock
transfer stamp frauds at Somerset House
nine years ago; and also his successful ex-
posture of notorious blackmailer Charles
Grandy. alias lie Grande, whose victims
were titled ladies' He has had pass
through his hands upon their arrest an
ex-London county councillor and former
lord lieutenant of Worcestershire. Mr..
Moore was engaged. with ex-Chief Inspec-
tor Tonbridge and Inspector Froest, IN
the mass of work entailed by the steps to
procure the conviction of Wright, Hobbs,
Newman and Balfour in connection with
Inc Liberia tor frauds, and he tells an anus
ing story in relation to the return Of Bal
four to this country.
when Balfour was expected at South
ampton the order was given that no press
man should be permitted to get near him.
Froest and l hired launch and while
the reporters were looking all round the
hotels for me we were lying off the Isle
Of Wight, waiting for the ship with the
prisoner on board to come up in the MORN
ing. Then the press tug came down, and
the men aboard did not realize that Bal
four was on my little leunch that steamed
mast them Suddenly they suspected it,.
and then began a chase to Southampton.
The tug passed US. but went into the En-
nress dock. while l slipped to another
place. where a carriage was waiting. and
so we evaded the whole crowd of inter-
viewers"
"Did you ever stand In danger Of your
lfa. MIR. Moore|
Il thirk ] did when / jun ed mo the
van containing The fifteen ingots OF sill
yer Two men were at the hack. That was
IN the case where thirty-one ingots, valued
a. "a 900. had been olen ON he Midi n !
railway van in 1895. and me OF them were
| fourd In The possession o. a man who re-
Gently committed suicide. II was then that
md D. sergt harris represent himself
asa Ivy. r. end I IN rsted him with H. 00)
IN rack mites e. show he men who held
ne hulk ~ che silver T ey misht have
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