CHIEF-INSPECTOR DEW

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 16, 31 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHIEF-INSPECTOR DEW

RETIREMENT AFTER 2!) YEARS’ M AR AGAINST CRIAIE.

Chief Inspector Dew, the man v. ho raced mrostlie ocean to capture Crippen.. the principal detective figure in clic- important criminal casts of the past tweniy-iive years, is -'to retire from •wCijtkinu-yai d on Dsx-uniber 5 Cs\vs th-? "Daily E.vpres-" of November 9th). J I iiavejiad nearly twenty-nino years ol it. and +hats enough for a young maip he said yesterday. “But I feel 'ar -too young to give up work altoget'w:-. and aitre my retirement I shall sig.rt r.s a private inquiry agent. Igm rot res elling ni c nquo:ice of any attacks tai'.t were made on me in certain quarters at the beginning of the Cr>pii’iienw.” breper-tor Dew is <mly fortv-reri-n years, old. .He was hardy nin’eVi” ,K ' h""-'d the Metropolitan * i lire: t ore;', v tel ? he wen earlv pro-

i t .' wire one o.t the detectives investi■.Mk?" ' T n ‘' s I' 1 the Ripper L'r-P 'i / ■ ' b ' lri c " ei 'gy ill this ' A-ivrei the rank vt bV l ' i,c He Nre. lapidlv. ■ <-a nope-tor nt Bnw-strret I l;ost of i eresi-.n to M.. Free.'t. <S,K " I H>s career has been one lone-. Rentunus criminal hurt, and if is bite i H.ough he had to deal' \ret.i many dangerous men. he never : a ’‘Y-hrer until the hunt after I Gh'H'. and has only used handcuffs ■ afk?ut xhiee wneq. j ] XhG PC ”” K ' h<? recent I Mij R- eg, n|l(] M;s „ Hamilroni ' iii; in tiu l Dmeo Cc.se. ' ■llarey the Valet.” the expert L'we! ( thief wlio re., le £20.1)00 worth' of jewels

for the War Office with regard to stolen cartridges, ran the thief to earth. ,All the important investigations came his way ; he frequently had to leave for the Continent at a moment’s notice to secure the arrest of some international swindler. He lias often said that, while it is imagined that detection of crime is now made easier by the use of telegrams and improved locomotion, the truth is that the work is far more difficult to-day. Criminals are better educated than they used to be, the means of cisca]ie are much easier, and there are so many ways by which a wanted man may cover up his tracks. Formerly it was only necessary to scour a country for a criminal —to-day tiie detective must search the world.