DEATH OF FAMOUS IRISH DETECTIVE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12727, 22 December 1915, Page 7

DEATH OF FAMOUS IRISH DETECTIVE.

Irish political crime, of the past half-t-eiitury are recalled by the sudden death in October of" Ireland'.- leading detective, Mr John Malli.n. J.P.. vx-Asslstant Commissioner i f the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

Joining the force as a constable in 1858. Mr Mailitii (relates "Daily Chronicle") did bis itiii share of police work during the sliiring times of the 'sixties, when "risin-'s" ami revolutionary meetings were common, and by 1869 lie bad risen to the raid-; of inspector. For years he was ••marked for removal," and carried bis life in bis hands. It was he who arrested the notorious "Captain Moonlight." One of the most sensational crimes of tic earlv eighties was fthe murder of an oh! process server and his son, engaged bv Lord Ardilauu to collect rents in the district in winch Lord Mountmorros had be:n lmirdcicil. liioodhounds were used, but no trace of the murdered meii was found until Lough Mask was dragged. There the two book's were discovered tied together "in a sack. It was Mallon who, after months of search, brought-the mur-de-evs to conviction. Willi Davilt. Se.vtou. and Parnell, all of whom at different times he arrested, Mallon was on friendly terms. When tin- Phoenix Park tragedy .-•hocked the eountrv in 1882 Mr Mallon was at the head of the police who, a year later, bioitght to justice the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burks.