London, March 4.
Popular indignation against the police authorities runs very high and the feeling is not
confined to the lower classes. Sir Edward Bradford's failure to detect the Whitechapel
assassin has had a discouraging influence in public opinion as to his capability. Much was
expected of him at the time of his appointment, and the revulsion from the former estimate
is serious. The failure of the police also to arrest the man who robbed a bank clerk in
broad daylight of nearly £15,000 arouses apprehension in breasts not affected by the
Whitechapel murders. It is said there are gangs of men in London who make it their business
to become intimately acquainted with the inner working of every bank and the movements of
every clerk who is in the habit of handling large amounts in coins or notes. "Why are these
gangs not broken up?" the people are asking, and comparisons are drawn up to Paris and New
York, unfavorable to the London police.
