Evening star., 1932-01-31

of anarchists in little house and bonn
barded them until the men, who opened
the shooting and returned it vigorously,
set fire to the house and died in the
flames One of the outstanding facts
about that siege was the poor marks
manship of the police; the only guns
they could get we're double -barreled
shotguns; finally the police called out
the Royal Scots Guards and even
squad of the Royal Artillery.
That siege was preceded by an at
tempt to arrest the whole band three
weeks earlier; five policemen visited
their lair at midnight and were met oy
Soft-nosed bullets. Three of the police
were killed and the other two wounded.
but even that experience did not arm
the Yard, and today inspectors go out
on night calls with nothing but per-
haps a small blackjack.
CARRYING a gun during the COM
mission of crime automatically adds
to 10 years to ones sentence, as every
criminal in England knows. Merely be-
ing found with a gun, without a permit,
can lead to a heavy sentence house,
breaker knows that if he is caught un-
armed, he will receive two years impris-
onment, but if he carries a gun he will
get II years; so he goes unarmed.
At the same time the Yard makes it
difficult to secure a gun. Any one wish
ing to purchase either gun or ammuni-
ton must first apply to the police SUPER
intendent of the local district for per-
nit, a system which is vigorously en-
forced. There has been some "bootleg-
ging" in guns, but Scotland Yard knows
where most of the guns in England are.
The c. T. D., though giving news
papers legitimate information through
its press bureau, still works under a great
gray coat of secrecy. The story goes to
the papers Scotland Yard has been
called in. inspector So-and- So has been
assigned to the case" And that is near
ly all that is officially published until the
crime is solved. The names of assistants
who have perhaps brought the case to a
successful conclusion are seldom given.
But out of the cloak Of anonymity
wrapped about the C. I. D. and its work
there have emerged the names of some
of the great detectives and stories of
their exploits. Chief Constable Wensley,
now retired, is perhaps the most famous;
many of the most difficult cases in the
last 40 years were solved under his lead
ership. 1t was WenSley who was called
to solve the VoiSin case Parts of
womans body were found done up in
package with bit of paper on which
there was written one phrase: "Blodie
Belgium" A suspect was taken, but had
a perfect alibi Wensley asked him to
write Bloody Belgium" on a piece of
paper. The man Immediately wrote
"Blodie Belgium a little while later
confessed to the murder
1t was Wensley who was given the job
of breaking up various gangs, with rack
cts that are only too familiar, which eX-
listed in East London in 1902-03. Through
his work the leaders of the "BeSSara-
bianS" were imprisoned, and one by one
the gangs were wiped out. 1t was Wens-
ley, too, who was faced with the death OF
a girl by gas. Everything suggested sui
cide-She was found with gas tube in
her mouth-but there was no smell of
gas in the room. A young man who
knew her had Shaky story. WenSley
suddenly turned to him and asked, Who
turned off the gas? 1t could not have
been the girl" The question unbalanced
the man, who confessed strangling the
girl and then arranging the suicide"
1t was Wensley who was given the
curious task of discovering the truth
about an undertaken who claimed to
have found the body of Gen. Kitchener,
drowned at sea in 1915, and who was
keeping it. No crime had been commit
ted, but some breach of decency might
soon arise. How could the police dis
cover whether the undertaken was a
fraud? Wensley went to the place and