POLICE CHIEF KILLED
SCOTLAND YARD OFFICER LONDON, May 25. Superintendent Clarence E. Campion, ■formerly chief of Scotland Yard’s “Rogues’ Gallery” (the Criminal Record Office), has been killed in France. He was hit by a machine-gun bullet from a Nazi aeroplane in a raid over a French coastal town.
Tall and curly-headed, Superintendent Campion was 48, the youngest member of the Big Six of the Criminal Investigation Department. He went to France some weeks ago with the rank of major to command a special force of Flying Squad Yard men in the military police attached to General Headquarters.
As a young C.I.D. man he helped to track a white slave gang in the West End. He was also known for his work in two famous murder trials, that of Mrs Pace, following the death of her husband from arsenical poisoning in the Forest of Dean, and the trial of Mrs Elvira Barney, accused of shooting Thomas Stephens at Williams Mews, Kensington. Both women were acquitted.
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Southland Times, Issue 24162, 26 June 1940, Page 3
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