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Greetings all,
Note the following article from the New York World, December 21, 1888:
ALL THE WAY FROM SCOTLAND YARD.
An English Detective coming Here in Search of Jack the Ripper. [SPECIAL TO THE WORLD.] MONTREAL, Dec. 20.
– Inspector Andrews, of Scotland Yard, arrived here to-day from Toronto and left to-night for New York. He tried to evade newspaper men, but incautiously revealed his identity at the Central Office, where he had an interview with Chief of Police Hughes. He refused to answer any questions regarding his mission, but said there were twenty-three detectives, two clerks and one inspector employed on the Whitechapel murder cases, and that the police were without a jot of evidence upon which to arrest anybody.
Does this sound correct? Even if Inspector Andrews was referring to H-Division, we know there were more inspectors. Maybe he was referring to Chief Inspector Swanson as the inspector and all of his CID subordinates as the detectives.
Sincerely,
Mike
Note the following article from the New York World, December 21, 1888:
ALL THE WAY FROM SCOTLAND YARD.
An English Detective coming Here in Search of Jack the Ripper. [SPECIAL TO THE WORLD.] MONTREAL, Dec. 20.
– Inspector Andrews, of Scotland Yard, arrived here to-day from Toronto and left to-night for New York. He tried to evade newspaper men, but incautiously revealed his identity at the Central Office, where he had an interview with Chief of Police Hughes. He refused to answer any questions regarding his mission, but said there were twenty-three detectives, two clerks and one inspector employed on the Whitechapel murder cases, and that the police were without a jot of evidence upon which to arrest anybody.
Does this sound correct? Even if Inspector Andrews was referring to H-Division, we know there were more inspectors. Maybe he was referring to Chief Inspector Swanson as the inspector and all of his CID subordinates as the detectives.
Sincerely,
Mike