Detective's evidence stolen

THE CLEVELAND STREET SCANDAL.

The Cleveland Street scandal has turned up again in the form of a very uncomfortable report. It is said that some six months ago a London detective named Partridge was despatched in search of the man Charles Hammond, with instructions to obtain from him by purchase a number of letters in his possession, some of them, it is said, written by men bearing well-known names. Partridge after a long hunt came up with Hammond in Chicago, and after some bargaining succeeded in obtaining possession of the documents. The detective was triumphantly on his way home when he was robbed of the packet, which persons directly concerned learned to their embarrassment is again somewhere in the United States.
- London Correspondent.

Source: Dundee Evening Telegraph, Friday 3 April, 1891