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David O'Flaherty
Inspector
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 353
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 8:19 pm: |       |
Here's a new side (to me at least) of Inspector Reid as referenced in his obituary in The Times 7 Dec. 1917:
Mr. Edmund Reid, who was Chief Detective-Inspector of the Whitechapel district during the period of the “Ripper” murders, died at Herne Bay on Wednesday. Mr. Reid was born in 1846 and joined the Metropolitan Police Force in 1872. He retired in February, 1896, when he was the oldest divisional detective inspector in the Metropolitan Police.
Some years ago Mr. Reid was awarded gold and bronze medals by the Balloon Association of Great Britain for making record high ascents in a balloon from the Crystal Palace, and about 40 years ago he made the first descent from a parachute from 1,000ft. at Luton.
Reid parachuting from balloons around 1877--now that would be interesting to learn more about.
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2749
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 4:03 pm: | |
Dave, what on earth happened to the balloon? 
Robert |
David O'Flaherty
Inspector
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 354
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 4:13 pm: | |
It's still up there somewhere, Robert. If you're patient and squint just the right way, on certain summer evenings you can just make it out against the moon 
Cheers,
Dave |
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