LIFE OF ADVENTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 10

LIFE OF ADVENTURE

B£CR€T SERVICE MAN

NOTABLE CAPTURES RECALLED.

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

To few men has adventure come in such abundance as to Mr. A. H. M' Gilvray, Secret Service office, soldier, and former Inspector of Police, Monmouthshire, who is now in Auckland. An officer of Scotland Yard,' Mir. M'Gilvray had an association with criminal detection which led him on many excursions through Europe in connection with both felony and political crimo. He is the holder of seven war medals | and ten fighting bars. As a soldier he . served in the South African. War, the I Sudan campaign, and the European War. On secret service work he has followed notorious criminals across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean countries, Asia, and Australia. His most noted criminal work was the capture of the murderer Dr. Crippen when wjreless telegraphy was used for the first time to intercept an absconder from justice. Mr. M' Gilvray visited Russia during the height of the revolution, and was arrested by the Bolsheviks at Riga. He made a special investigation into the maze of political intrigue which was exercising the. police of Europe when the Bolshevik influences became international. A fluent speaker of German, he was frequently engaged on the Continent. While in Australia in 1922, Mr. M' Gilvray was sworn-in by the ConsulGeneraj^of France to assist in the escort of Istwan Sziber and Georges Fulop, the notorious seditionists. Both plotters were condemned to banishment for life to Noumea, and arrived at Sydney in May, 1922. They escaped during coaling iterations. Mr. M'Gilvray was then in touch with the Australian Secret Service. His previous knowledge of both fugitives stood him in good stead, and he had them arrested within twenty-four hours. Mr. M'Gilvray and another detective wero commissioned to escort the prisoners to New Caledonia, and the men were safely lodged at Nou Island, near Noumea. Whilo waiting for the vessel to return, Mr. M'Gilvray excited the interest of yie criminal faction of Noumea, and was attacked one night. He was shot through the forearm and lightly stabbed, but had the satisfaction of bringing two of his assailants to trial for attempted murder.