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In August 1888, James Monro tendered his resignation as Assistant Commissioner CID and moved across Whitehall to the Home Office.
Western Daily Press, 6th September 1888—
“Mr. Monro, whose new department at the Home Office is as mysterious as the identity of Colonel Wilkinson, his newly-appointed assistant, is organizing a secret police. The secret police is to have rare functions, and will be an altogether extraordinary body. Scotland Yard, in fact, is to be absorbed, bureaucratically, into the department presided over by Mr. Henry Matthews, and Mr. Monro is to burst forth into a full-blown modern nineteenth century edition of Fouché.”
Homeward Mail from India, China and the East, 22nd October 1888—
“We announced the other day, says the Englishman, that Colonel Wilkinson had declined the deputation to Ceylon, for which he was nominated by the Bengal Government, on the score of ill-health. His friends need not, however, feel any immediate anxiety on his behalf, as he has been appointed assistant to Mr. Monro. The nature of the duties to be performed by Mr. Monro has been kept a profound secret, but they are believed to be similar to those previously performed by Mr. Jenkinson . . .”
Pall Mall Gazette, 26th October 1888—
“A report comes from India that Colonel Wilkinson, lately serving under the Bengal Government, has been appointed assistant to Mr. Monro in his new position at the Home Office. As we mentioned in our articles on the Metropolitan Police, the late director of the Criminal Investigation Department is himself an old Anglo-Indian official.”
Who was the mysterious Colonel Wilkinson?
Regards,
Simon
In August 1888, James Monro tendered his resignation as Assistant Commissioner CID and moved across Whitehall to the Home Office.
Western Daily Press, 6th September 1888—
“Mr. Monro, whose new department at the Home Office is as mysterious as the identity of Colonel Wilkinson, his newly-appointed assistant, is organizing a secret police. The secret police is to have rare functions, and will be an altogether extraordinary body. Scotland Yard, in fact, is to be absorbed, bureaucratically, into the department presided over by Mr. Henry Matthews, and Mr. Monro is to burst forth into a full-blown modern nineteenth century edition of Fouché.”
Homeward Mail from India, China and the East, 22nd October 1888—
“We announced the other day, says the Englishman, that Colonel Wilkinson had declined the deputation to Ceylon, for which he was nominated by the Bengal Government, on the score of ill-health. His friends need not, however, feel any immediate anxiety on his behalf, as he has been appointed assistant to Mr. Monro. The nature of the duties to be performed by Mr. Monro has been kept a profound secret, but they are believed to be similar to those previously performed by Mr. Jenkinson . . .”
Pall Mall Gazette, 26th October 1888—
“A report comes from India that Colonel Wilkinson, lately serving under the Bengal Government, has been appointed assistant to Mr. Monro in his new position at the Home Office. As we mentioned in our articles on the Metropolitan Police, the late director of the Criminal Investigation Department is himself an old Anglo-Indian official.”
Who was the mysterious Colonel Wilkinson?
Regards,
Simon
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