Abberline and Special Branch

[Simon Wood]

Hi Lynn,

Y Division was Highgate, main police station Kentish Town.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

thanks

Hello Simon. Thanks. Thought that Cracknell, Y division, was sent to watch Isenschmidt.

Cheers.
LC

[mklhawley]

Thank you so much for this Lynn. This is nothing less than awesome!

Sincerely,

Mike

[lynn cates]

more to follow

Hello Mike. Entirely welcome!

Later, I will get to the long dynamite story.

Cheers.
LC

[mklhawley]

Cheers.
LC

Now, this article states (post # 22) that Abberline is an ex-inspector who assisted Inspector Froest in an arrest. Abberline was working for the Pinkertons at this time. Incidentally, Froest was one of the detectives named on Tumblety's Marlborough Court charge sheet.

Mike

[lynn cates]

mistake?

Hello Mike. Well spotted.

There is also a clipping from about 1873 in which he is an inspector, but another from 1878, in which he is a serjeant. Wonder if that's a mistake?

Cheers.
LC

[mklhawley]

I believe he was promoted to inspector in 1873, so my bet is the 1878 article made the mistake.

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

When Abberline was assisting Froest in 1898 his employer was Littlechild, who ran the London branch of Pinkertons.

Another Littlechild employee was ex-Superintendent John Shore.

They were all chums together.

Regards,

Simon

[mklhawley]

Hi All,

When Abberline was assisting Froest in 1898 his employer was Littlechild, who ran the London branch of Pinkertons.

Another Littlechild employee was ex-Superintendent John Shore.

They were all chums together.

Regards,

Simon

I remember David Williams, who wrote a book on the Pinkertons, called William Pinkerton an Anglophile. A London branch would have been the perfect excuse to wear his cockney hat!
Mike

[Simon Wood]

Hi Mike,

The Pinkerton's origins were Scottish.

Surely Willie would have been wanting to wear a Tam O'Shanter?

Lynn Cates will set us straight about such arcane matters.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

cosy

Hello Simon.

"When Abberline was assisting Froest in 1898 his employer was Littlechild, who ran the London branch of Pinkertons.

Another Littlechild employee was ex-Superintendent John Shore.

They were all chums together."

Sounds rather cosy.

Cheers.
LC

[Simon Wood]

Hi Lynn,

Cosy?

I'm amazed Pinkertons didn't have an office in New Scotland Yard.

Regards,

Simon

[Bridewell]

Hi Lynn,

Cosy?

I'm amazed Pinkertons didn't have an office in New Scotland Yard.

Regards,

Simon

How would we know if they did have? How do we know that they didn't?!

[lynn cates]

heh-heh

Hello Simon.

"I'm amazed Pinkertons didn't have an office in New Scotland Yard."

Hmm, food for thought, heh-heh.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

the old department

Hello Bridewell.

"How would we know if they did have? How do we know that they didn't?!"

'Ere now. And I thought you were an ex-copper? Heh-heh.

Cheers.
LC