A FAMOUS DETECTIVE

Evening Star, Issue 14186, 11 October 1909, Page 3

A FAMOUS DETECTIVE

British Detective-inspector Arrow was recently officially relieved of hie duties as chief and organiser of the special police of Barecelona.

It is over two years since Chief-detective Inspector Arrow completed upwards of a quarter of a century of service with the Criminal Investigation Department, and went to Barcelona to take up the appointment of chief organiser of a private police serv’ee to deal with the numerous bomb outrages that had during twenty years been occamng with a strange persistency. At the time of the formation of this special a called the Solidaridat ( Strong Union M ) was fcko dominating political force in Catalonia, and when Inspector Arrow went to Barcelona Solidaridab influence was in the ascendant at Madrid. The appointment was naturally criticised by the opponents of the Solidaridat, consisting of various sections of the Republican party, and their antagonism to Inspector Arrow took various forms. He was maligned by the Press, and mass meetings of protest were organised. —Protective Measures.— Public feeling against the inspector was by these means aroused to such an extent that for months his life was thought to be in danger, and armed police were stationed at his office door and the door of his hotel, while at night two mounted men paraded the street in which he lived. When, however, the enemies of the Solidaridat saw Inspector Arrow devoting himself solely to his duty of detecting bomb outrages and bolding himself aloof from political controversies, they ceased their opposition as regarded Press rancor and public meetings of protest; but Inspector Arrow’s position, resting as it did on Solidaridat favor, has been one of extreme difficulty, and this difficulty has been accentuated of late owing to reverses which the Solidaridat party have met with at the parliamentary and municipal polls. Inspector Arrow, during his long association with Scotland Yard, was concerned with the investigation of many famous crimes (Of which the last was the Wertheimer art robbery), and effected many dramatic captures.