The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-25
SCOTLAND YARD.
CHANGES MADE IN THE FAMOUS
HEADQUARTERS

Organization. with Perfect Husi-
ness system, Has Unearthed Many
Famous Robberies and Tragedies
From the London Telegraph
one by one familiar faces are disap-
nearing from the detective branch of New
Scotland Yard, which is stll known as
tire criminal investigation department,
presided over by DR.. Anderson. The lat
esq officer to retire on pension is Henry
Moore. senior chief inspector who has just
completed thirty and half years of ser
vice in the metropolitan police. He leaves
behind him one or two colleagues only
who can recall the early history of the
department. subsequent to its organize
ton by Howard Vincent, as he then was.
when the late Supt. Williamson was still
the occupant of the little room on the first
floor of the isolated brick building in the
middle of Great Scotland Yard-a place
which suffered serious damage by one o.
the dynamite explosions Williamson, the
level-headed. was succeeded by the late
Supt Shore. man who was credited with
an intimate knowledge of the criminal
world. but who upon his resignation de-
faces Shore was replaced by the present
very efficient superintendent, Donald
Swanson who was also contemporary
who Williamson. Chief Inspector Hare
remains. too, with one or two others VINO
were juniors in the dynamite days; bur
otherwise the detective work 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 depart
mental chiefs than was formerly the case.
OF what stuff was the old type of de-
tectives made, if we may take Mr.. Moore
as an example? His career, everybody
admits who has followed his work, has
been of a highly successful character
This deserved need of praise has been
given to him not only by home secretaries,
The public prosecutor. judges, coroners
commissioners of police and his fellow de-
tectives, who are not bad judges of
mans qualities, but by expert professional
criminnls-men OF educa ton. who, adopt
ing nefarious courses are known as the
classical" members of their fraternity
But. above all other descriptions of work
Mr. Moore has devoted himself to the UNI
travelling of mysterious murder clews. I'M
III he has been recognized as an authority,
and his name has, therefore, been asso-
ciated with many cases that are stil fresh
in the public recollection.
A good deal of his instinct must have
been hereditary, for his father was also
In the metropolitan police in which he
remained for twenty-six years, practically
the whole period having been passed in
Lewsham district in the p division.
where Moore, Sr., may still be- recalled
by his cognomen of Honest John" The
son. who was born in Northamptonshire
In lSiS his childhood nd
his educa ton at Lewisham. in the gram
mar school, and started life as clerk on
the Southwestern and also the London,
Chatham and Dover Railways. He also
acquired city experience in a wholesale
silk and linen warehouse but his liking
for the police led him TO enter the force
on April 26, 1869. and he began duty in
the w division, at Corydcn, and shortly
afterward he was made station acting
sergeant at Carshalton. Then he was
promoted TO sergeant in August, 1872. and
was transferred to Kentish town in the
division. There he remained and at
Highgate for two years and afierward he
returned 10 the p division. where in
1878. he became an inspector In uniform
An idea was once held at Scotland Yard
that detectives should be men of superior
educat lion. but an experiment in that di-
rection convinced the authorities that po-
lice duty in uniform is an essential part
OF the training. and a wide knowledge of
London is desirable. Mr.. Moore had the
advantage of both recommenda tons; he
was educated above the ordinary police
standard. and he had acquired from ac-
tual residence in different divisions a
most valuable stock in trade-a complete
familiarity with the metropolis and a
long iist of acquaintances So when in
February, lSSl-a very trying period-he
was selected for emn, Oyment at the chief
office OF the criminal Investigation de-
~ ma h haa. 1rt~.. -
years Ter. in accordance with the prac-
tice then existing. he was detached to
one Of the divisions 10 take local charge
of detective work, and il Was in the p
division that fer four years ne was en-
gagged in pursuing Inquiries originating
in that large district. In April 1855 he
was recalled 10 headquarters. and adj
vanced 20 first Grass and subsequently, 20
The chief inspectorship Among his most
cherished possessions are two valua BILE
gifts. one from Ear Spencer and the other
from SIR George Treveivan. for services
rendered in connection with the Phoenix
Park murders.
Many of the cases In which he has been
prominently concerned during the past
couple of decades have not yet died out
or public recollection. One of his earliest
was the notorious Wimbledon poisoning
tragedy, when DR. Lamson, in 1881 ad
m'nistered aconite IN capsule 10 his
crippled cousin. Perry acolm John, n
school boy. and afterward cody walked
into Scotland Yard. never thinking that
he would be detained or that guiN could
be brought home 10 HIM.
Perhaps no officer had more anxiors
work to discharge in connection with the
so-called Jack the Ripper" Whitechapel
murders than Mr.. Moore but he is re-
lucfant to talk of those trying TN s,
though in common with his colleague
he has formed a shrewd surmise as 70
the identity of the actual miscrCant, WHO
is now dead. Still more recently he WIS
engaged In running 10 earth at Toulon
the Frenchman Ravellot. who in Octobe
1894, murdered In old ComDtoa sire l.
Father Gabriel L. SEOUL. Then again.
upon the murder of Antoine Brose'u At
house in Castle street Long Acre. IN
November, 1897, IL was Mr. Moore whl
secured the arrest. near Turin. Of CID
scope Ravetti. who is now UNDERGOING a
sentence of thirty years imprisonment
for the horrible crime. the motive Of which