THE DETECTIVE AND DR. TANNER.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7

THE DETECTIVE AND DR. TANNER.

“Oh several occasions it became the duty of Mr, Sweeney, the well-known Scotland Yard detective, to arrest members of Parliament for political offences with which they wfre charged," says a writer in the “Penny Magazine," “and one of the most memorable incidents of this kind was that in which the late Dr. Tanner was th# central figure. “The doctrrr had been eluding the detectives for Scrme time, when he was tempted to make* what he hoped would be a secret visit to the House of Commons. But he had at Westminster a very little while wheW the word came in that Scotland Yard had tracked him, and that its representatives were outside. Detec-tive-Inspector Sweeney and his assistants Were waiting, “A council of war was held in the lobbies by the Dr, and his friends, several methods of escape were suggested—a lady in the House volunteering to lend the clothes she was wearing for the purpose of his disguise— but the doctor rejected them all, and in the ©mall hours of the morning, and in tho company of a band of M.P. friends, he left the House singing, and marched to an hotel a few hundred yards away, Mr. Sweeney followed.

“The detective passed into the smoking-room with them, and then quietly announced his businesi, but explained that there was “no hurry. ’’ The doctor talked harder than ever, and then tho law and Mr. Sweeney duly took their course."