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  • lynn cates
    Commisioner
    • Aug 2009
    • 13841

    #31
    yet another

    Hello Simon. Thanks.

    Working for Dublin Castle? Good grief, that puts him in the thick of things.

    That's all I need, another PI working against the Irish cause.

    (And a Scots lad. I may cry.)

    Cheers.
    LC

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    • Bridewell
      Commissioner
      • Apr 2011
      • 4039

      #32
      Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
      Hello Simon, Colin. Here is the trial of Meiklejohn.

      Cheers.
      LC

      http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/brows...john#highlight
      Hi Lynn,

      Thanks for that. I'll have a look at it over the week-end.

      Regards, Bridewell.
      I won't always agree but I'll try not to be disagreeable.

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      • Simon Wood
        Commissioner
        • Feb 2008
        • 5552

        #33
        Hi All,

        Adolphus Frederick Williamson was undoubtedly a much respected police officer.

        A few familiar names contributed to his Memorial Fund.

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        Regards,

        Simon
        Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

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        • lynn cates
          Commisioner
          • Aug 2009
          • 13841

          #34
          Bulling

          Hello Simon. Thanks for that. A veritable who's whom.

          I think the Borthwick chap was a Primrose League lad, as, I think, was Dolly.

          Did you notice TJ Bulling? Zounds!

          Cheers.
          LC

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          • Scott Nelson
            Superintendent
            • Feb 2008
            • 2428

            #35
            Thanks Simon. Is the T.J. Bulling, Esq. a different guy from the newspaper journalist?

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            • Debra A
              Assistant Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 3504

              #36
              Wasn't Meiklejohn hired by William O'Brien of the "United Ireland" to get dirt in Dublin on George Bolton (amongst others), Crown solicitor in Ireland . Meiklejohn paid a visit to Alice Carroll in connection with this particular private investigation, ( I assume because Bolton had been stated to have been withholding crucial defence evidence in certain cases in the Irish courts and perhaps fabricating prosecution evidence too?)

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              • lynn cates
                Commisioner
                • Aug 2009
                • 13841

                #37
                take

                Hello Debs. That is pretty much my take. Hence, my astonishment.

                Cheers.
                LC

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                • Debra A
                  Assistant Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 3504

                  #38
                  Thanks, Lynn.
                  Why do you think Meiklejohn was visiting Alice?

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                  • lynn cates
                    Commisioner
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 13841

                    #39
                    Alice

                    Hello Debs. Seems to me to obtain information.

                    Alice was given L500 (if I recall properly) for her testimony. That was quite a sum. Tynan was convinced that she was a British spy.

                    I don't know what to believe, except that she gave some crucial testimony.

                    At inquest the defense tried to make heavy weather of her being in pubs. She played down that aspect of their testimony, but then with that D & D you found . . .

                    Perhaps alcohol was her bane after all.

                    Cheers.
                    LC

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