the divisions lie made his mark as an officer of ideas and imagination, but most of all as a man who made imagination his handmaiden in crime detection instead of becoming its slave. Mr Ashley never forgets anything and is as accurate in his recollections as a card-index system. Incidentally he is not the. only Ashley of high rank in the Metropolitan Police Force. Two of his brothers followed his lead and joined the police—one, Inspector Hugh Ashley, is known all oyer the British Isles; he was the personal guard of Mr Baldwin when Prime Minister. The other brother, who died a few years ago, was one of the experts of the Yard’s marvellous . finger-print department.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1929, Page 2
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