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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7263, 24 January 1889, Page 3

The most interesting thing about the history of the new Chief Commissioner of Police relates to the most prominent fact about his.physical appearance. Mr Monro is very lame, so lame that he cannot sit a horse nor can he stand for any time erect without support. His lameness dates from the time when he was holding a judicial and executive appointment in the Bengal Civil Service. He was then, an active young Scotchman, who thoroughly enjoyed the Anglo-Indian practtce, wbieh combines the duty of policeman and magistrate in the same person. As a judge he was desirous of securing the punishment of a thief, and as chief of the executive he attempted to arrest him with his own hands. The thief fled: Mr Monro, moonted ona good horse, pursued; the thief slipped over thegaxden Wl; Mr Mc_ro, nothtoa dauntei pat his horse to the leap-and that _ all that Mr Monro knows. Six atorwards Mr Monro woke from* prolaaxmd. state ot uncoasckKinnww, with a «m__ed leg and pent—ne_t_y crippled thigh.