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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...thousand other villagers of Wharfedale, Waldendale and the emerald green valley of Wensley were joined in their hunt by a posse of army lads equipped with walkie-talkies; at one point they thought they had him surrounded, but the murderer fled to a stretch of wild country where no man could follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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