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Monty
Detective Sergeant
Username: Monty
Post Number: 113
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:40 am: | 
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Folks,
Im currently working through Mr Beggs book (and enjoying it too !!).
Ive come across some notes refering to James Monros unpublished memoires which I believe are held by Mr Skinner.
By reading Pauls book I know he has a copy...why??, cos he says so, thats why you fools.
I was just wondering if anyone knows about any plans to get this unpublished work published ??
Nosey bonk Monty
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David Andersen
Sergeant
Username: Davida
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 9:21 pm: |
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No. But I can add that Monro died in Chiswick as, of course did, Montague Druitt Monro had retired there and died at 15 Bolton Road. One of his close neighbours, in Chiswick, was the man who ran the Manor House Asylum, also in Chiswick, where Montague Druitts mother Anne died - private info ???
Regards
David
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Natalie Severn
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Severn
Post Number: 2722
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 5:12 am: |
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Hi,Monty and David,
I too would love to see a copy of Monro"s memoires.
When he finally resigned in in 1890 it was under a cloud.
Like Sir Robert Anderson later, he seemed to be unwilling to let sleeping dogs lie-in Anderson"s case it was over his role in the fall of Parnell but in Monro"s case it looks like it was to do with the Cleveland street scandal and having put the backs up of certain aristocrats who frequented the club.
Very interesting that his immediate successor, as Chief Commissioner,in 1890 was Sir Edward Bradford,
who the year previously had escorted Prince Albert Victor on his Indian tour.This was following the Cleveland Streeet Scandal of 1889.
Apparently the newspapers of the day had a field day when it was Sir Edward Bradford"s turn to leave as they raked up a big pile of stuff
about Monro"s past and in particular the reason he had caused Warren to resign.Apparently it was because he wanted his great friend Sir Melville Macnaghten from India to take up "an appointment"in Scotland Yard which Warren fiercely objected to.
Monro won--------and became Chief Commissioner!
Monro may or may not have known the identity of Jack the Ripper- but he coundnt have been more central to police operations at the time of the murders.
Access to his memoirs may provide us some subtle hints and inferences at the very least-though he was apparently a man of great discretion.
But that relationship with Macnaghten,which was sound throughout and was still so in 1910 when Macnaghten was helping Monro over "Anderson"s Admissions"-where Anderson was telling the press Monro had been complicit in spreading stories about Parnell.Monro flatly denied it.
Two senior police,close friends at that, one sitting on a mine of information throughout 1888
if anyone knew they did.I had not known until very recently how close Monro and Macnaghten were.I knew Anderson was once a close friend of Monro and they fell out later on but not that the the author of the famous memorandum was always a close friend.It seems Sir Edward Bradford who succeeded Monro stayed a friend too.I wonder did he write any memoirs?
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