Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-16
FAMOUS AS A DETECTIVE
Senior Chief Inspector of Scotland Yanl
Has Just Retired
Has Seen Over Thirty Nears' Service
ana Has tnraveIed Many Pux-
xiing Mysteries.
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
one by one familiar faces are dlsappcar-
ing from the detective branch Of New Scot
land Yard. which is still known as the
criminal investigation department. presided
over by DIR. Anderson. The latest officer
to retire on pension is Henry Moore senior
chief inspector. who has Just completed
thirty and a half years service i'm the moi
ropoitan police
VI what stuff WAS the old type OF ic-
'ec'iVe made. IL We may take MIR Moore
as an example? His career. everybody adj
mits who has followed his work. has been
of highly successful character. Thi, do
served NEED Of praise has been given 10
him not only by home secretaries. the nub-
lie prosecutor. Judges, coroners commits
sloners or police and his fellow detectives
VINO are not bad Judges Of a mans ousli-
ties out by expert professional criminals
men OF education who adopting nefarious
courses. are known as the ella ssicaI'' mem
oers OF their fraternity. But above all
other descriptions OF work. Mr. Moore has
devoted himself to the unrayelIng az Dv.-
terlous murder clues, until he has been
recognized as an authority. and his name
mas. therefore, been associated with many
cases that are still fresh in the public rec,,-
lection.
Many of the cases I'm which h, has been
prominently concerned during the nat
couple or decades have not Yet died out (, (
~
the notorious Wimbledon poisoning tra,ys-
dS' when DR. lamson. I'm lsS1 administered
aconite in capsule to his cripplcd cousin
fercy malcolm John. a school boy. and
aiterwaru 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 dlscharge In connection with the So
called Jack the Ripper WhitechaDel rnI,r-
CFrs IMAM MT Moore, but he is reluctant
TO talk of those trying times though in
common with his colleagues he has formed
a shrewd surmlse as TO the Identity of tn.
actual miscreant. who is now dead Still
more recently he was engaged In running
70 70 earth at Iouion the Frenchman Ravel-
lot who in October. 1904 murdered I'm Old
compton street Father Gabriel L SeauD
lhen. again, upon the murder of AntnIue
brosetti. at a house in Castle street. Long
Acre IN November. 1897 Il was Mr. Moore
who secured the arrest near Turin of Ont
Seppe RaVetti. who Is now undergoing a
sentence OF thirty years Imprisonment for
the horrible crime the motive OF which was
70 secure the OLD shOemaker's boarded gold
MT. Moore appeared also in the proceeding.
against DR.. Collins. charged with having
caused TIE death Of Mrs. Jzielli
Murder. alone however has not been .b.
retiring inspectors speciality II Is suff
cient TO recall his investigation Of tho
Lahgtry Jewel case. and the part which he
ana Inspector Richards played in tracing
the perpetrators of the great stock transfer
stamp frauds at Somerset house nine ycar.
ago; and also his successful axpostIra If ,
notorious blackmaier. Charles Grandy
ma; a. LIE IIrande whose victims were titled
ladies' He has had pass through his hand.
upon ihelr arrest an eX-London county
SSnuilciiior and former lord lieutenant Of
worcestershire Mr. Moore was engaged
Win ek-Chlef Inspector Tonbridge and In
Spector Froest. in the mass of work on
talleu by the steps to procure the conyic-
tion OF Wright, Hobbs. Newman and Raj
four IN CO lnection with the Liberator
rAl an
country. l" 'Hls
When Balfour was expected al south
anpton the order was given that no nrcss
man should be permitted to eet near III,
froest and L hired launch and while M.
reporters were looking all round tho b,t.ls
Lor me we We're lying off the Isle. of Wight
Mditlng Tor the ship with the prisnpar ,,,,
BOARD to come up in the morning tn,
lIe press tug came down and the M,
ABOARD ala no. realize that RalfotIr vas a.,
EiS NIUE launch that steamed past them
suddenly they suspected it, and then b,.,a,,
a chase TO Southampton Th,. tup ,,,sS..i
US, nut went into the Empress dork WALL
sllpped To another place. where a carriage
was waiting. and SO We eNad,d thu Will
crowd OF IteryieWers MUS
life, Mr. Moore?' va your
cort9 thlnk did when jumped into the van
containing the fifteen ingots of silver. Twn
men were at the back That was IN ,b,
E Ca Niete thlrty-onc iugpts valued al
bf,,Vo' Hau been stolen from the Midland
lail"5i! van IN 1879, and some of them were
FOUND IN the possession Of Il man who re-.
Gently committed suicide. Ii Was th,n Thar
made Sergeant Harris represent himself
as buyer. and intrusted him with II G0n
IN bank notes to show tho men who hold
the Dulk OF the silver They might have
Identity" MS
What has been your most extraor-
binary clue?''
Il recall case where a man WAS
wanted in the West Indies He was traced
TO f1mlico, but | found he had gone away
from the house an hour or so before | ar
rived The only clue was that he had
taken cab with gray horse Nv game
was to look for gray horse in a cab and
| had not walked quarter Of a mile be-
lore l. hailed the driver of such an animal
1t was the very cabman | wanted Nv
man was not inside, but [ succeeded in ar
resting him at Liverpool and took him back
To the West Indies
Il recollect another case I'm which, while
tracing the abductor of an heiress / came
upon another couple who had eloped under
precisely the same conditions from Ger
many.
once L had a curious presentiment A
man was arrested for fraud and as he
stood in the dock at the police court I felt
that he had something upon him He had
been searched, but had him searched again
still without result. But | still was con-
scious of the same presentiment. and had
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