Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office (Patterson Smith Reprint Series in Criminology, Law Enforcement, and Social Problems. Publication No. 136) - Hardcover

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875851363 ISBN 13: 9780875851365

Publisher: Patterson Smith, 1972

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... the "Brown Bear" in Bow Street, the landlord of which was, at that time, a Mr. Hazard, with whom, as may be readily supposed, Gibbons was on terms of intimacy. Of him Gibbons learnt all the news of the day, and among the rest the robbery of the Paisley Union Bank, and the apprehension of Huffey White. On hearing this Gibbons hastened to Mrs. Mackcoull, and had just time to tell her that he had been at the 'Brown Bear/ when she, suspecting what he had heard, interrupted him by exclaiming, 4 Oh, how glad I am to see you, my dear Mr. Gibbons; will you step in and take tea? and then she went on with a long lamentation about the 'unfortunate affair,' and said she thought that, to save Huffey's life, the notes ought to be returned, proposing that he (Gibbons) should enter into a negotiation, and be paid properly for his trouble. Gibbons assented readily to the suggestion, and on leaving the lady, bent his steps to-Bow Street, to break the matter to his friend Hazard, the publican, through whom he intended opening the arrangement with the bank. "Now, Gibbons, finding that Hazard had heard every detail of the affair from two of the waiters, who had put up at his house, and also from the officers who had been at Scoltock's, unceremoniously proposed to him to break the negotiation to Vickery, the officer. Hazard agreed, and Vickery readily undertook to see the agent for the bank. Gibbons had scarcely reached home, when Mrs. Mackcoull arrived, and told him that her husband was willing to give up the notes, and that, on the following morning, he would put down in writing what he thought ought to be the terms of the treaty. VOL. I. M "Now, Sayer was an old acquaintance of Mrs. Mackcoull, and Mackcoull therefore fixed on him to conduct the negotiatio...

Edition details

• Publisher: Patterson Smith
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0875851363
• ISBN 13: 9780875851365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1