DETECTION OF CRIME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

DETECTION OF CRIME.

The gentleman whose nanw is most freely mentioned as the successor to Sir E. \V. T. Henderson us Chief Com* missioner of the Metropolitan Police is Mr. Jenkinaon. It will be remembered that when pursuit in connection with the detection of the Phoenix Park murderers was abandoned Mr. Jenkinson arrived at Dublin Castle. Through his exertions the assassins were convicted and executed. Mr. Jonkinson'a services were afterwards transferred to the Home Office, London. There he reorganised the department entrusted with secret inquiries into political crime. The convictions of the dynamitard Egan and his confederates at Birmingham, and nlso '.of many other dynamitards were due to this organisation. In order to render the department complete in every particular a large staff of trustworthy men and women are employed, and tbo Government are fully supplied with the movements of the instigators of the dynamite policy. To thin, it is believed, is due the immunity from attack which has existed now for some time. In India Mr Jenkinson has had some valuable experience in the organisation of the police.

"De man wat urgently insists on yer eatin' dinner at his house," says a planUtion cynic, "is the man wat ia glad wen yer refutes." The Alaskaus, aays a geographer, are are slow to anger. The fact is due to the circumstance that they belong to a farbearing community,