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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

After two years. Policeman Wensley was made a detective. Courteous to the worst of crooks, he received their respect in return. He was never known to arrest a criminal while he was at a meal. Famed Wensley crime-solutions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Regents Park Case. A woman was missing. Sleuth Wensley traced her to a house in Regents Park; found her there, murdered, and with her one Maltby, a tailor who had locked himself in the house and lived for weeks alone beside her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Gerard Case. A Mme. Gerard was murdered, with only two clues?a laundry mark, a cryptic message. Sleuth Wensley deduced the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Wensley method for solving a particularly trying mystery was always the same. Slumping into a big armchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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