FAMOUS DETECTIVE'S DEATH.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14326, 17 October 1910, Page 5

FAMOUS DETECTIVE'S DEATH.

110* ' ' INJURED IN A FIGHT. Inspector Sexton—tlie man who arrested more murderers and notorious foreign criminals than any other detective at .Scotland Yard—died slid- , deni.v at Ilis homo in London. "Con" Sexton, as lie was known in the s.rvicu was formerly head of the extradition" stall' of the Criminal ln\vsU"aiion Department, and in that capacity (says an Jiuglwh paper) had to deal with nearly every loreign desperado who lias sought shelter in tlua country in the last 20 years. 'J'ho'death of this famous detective at the early age of 49 was primarily due to an internal injury caused in <in<3 of Lis innumerable struggles with u< 3porato characters. One of ins lust exploits before lie retired from Scotland Yard a year on a full pension shows tho pluck and resourca Mr Sexton showed in nn. emergency. Ho was engaged i° n thrilling struggle on the footboard of # nn. express train with a. French criminal whom ho had arrested and was bringing back to London for extradition. Inspector Sexton went to .Jersey to fetch this man, who, _ when tho warrant was rend, exclaimed: "I never he taken to Franco to ho sent to Devil's Island. DESPERATE STRUGGLE. "We .shall see," said Inspector Sexton quietly, and he kept a close eyo on his prisoner. It was needed, ior on the way to London, wlien tho train was travelling at 60 miles an hour, the man. who was powerfully built, opened the carriage door and sprang out. Inspector Sexton immediately seized him, and there was a fioreo struggle, which lasted some minutes, in the open doorway, and on the footboard of tho express. When he was drawn back into the carriage be first threatened to murder the detective and then tried to commit suicide, but he was overcome, handcuffed, and delivered safely at Bow-Street. This was only one of Mr Sexton's struggles and adventures. Guerin. the fugitive from "Devil's Island, was first arrested in London by Inspector Sexton, and years after when he escaped it was bis old detect!vo friend who found him again and re- • arrested him. Once, when ho was , arresting a foreigner in a Bloomshury house a fierce bull-dog was set on him. but the detective, although the dog hold on, kept his man until police help came. When Mr Sexton was raised to the i rank of inspector he was one of tho I youngest men ever sclented for tho \ promotion, far he was then little over j 30. He had held a clerkship in a Consul's office, and wa.s one of tho host' linguists Scotland Yard ever had.