MacNaghten's Retirement

POLICE OFFICER'S RETIREMENT.

(Press Assn - By Telegraph - Copyright.)

LONDON, May 16. - Sir Melville MacNaghten is retiring from Scotland Yard on account of ill-health.
Sir Melville Leslie MacNaghten was created a knight in 1907. He is 60 years of age. He was appointed Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department in 1903. He was appointed to represent the police on the Hon. A.H. Asquith's Committee to enquire into the identification of criminals (1893-4). He is a Knight Commander of the White Military Order of Spain and Second Class Commander of the Order of Dannebrog.

Source: Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13077, 17 May 1913, Page 3

RETIREMENT OF A HIGH POLICE OFFICIAL.

LONDON, 16th May.

Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten (Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police and Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at Scotland Yard since 1903), is retiring from Scotland Yard on account of ill-health.
[Sir Melville Macnaghten, born in 1853, was educated at Eton. He was manager of family estates in Bengal from 1873 to 1888, and in 1889 became Chief Constable of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, a position he held until 1903, when he became Assistant Commissioner and Chief of the Department. In 1893-94 he represented the police on Mr. Asquith's Committee to enquire into the identification of criminals.]

Source: Evening Post, Volume. LXXXV, Issue 116, 17 May 1913, Page 5

A FASCINATING CRIMINAL.

"JACK THE RIPPER."
By Telegraph. - Press Association. - Copyright.

LONDON, 2nd June.

Sir Melville Macnaghten, of Scotland Yard, interviewed on his retirement, said that he had a clear idea of "Jack the Ripper's" identity. He was one of the most fascinating criminals he had ever known, and committed suicide in the latter part of 1888.
Sir Melville Macnaghten declined to reveal the secret of the criminal's identity.

[The Whitechapel murders, committed by "Jack the Ripper" caused a great sensation. They all occurred in 1888. On 3rd April a woman named Smith was killed, on 7th August Martha Turner, on 31st August a woman named Nicholls, and on 7th or 8th September a woman named Chapman. The Coroner returned open verdicts. The evidence showed that the murderer possessed surgical knowledge, his object being to get possession of certain organs. Between 1 and 2 a.m. on the 30th September two other women - E. Watts (or Stride) and C. Conway (or Eddowes) - were killed, and on the 9th November the body of Mary Jane Kelly was found, dreadfully mutilated, in a house in Dorset-street, and Spitalfields. Sir Melville Macnaghten was Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department from 1889 till 1903.]

Source: Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 130, 3 June 1913, Page 7

SCOTLAND YARD.
RETIREMENT OF CHIEF.

LONDON, May 16.

Sir Melville MacNaghten, chief of the Criminal Investigation department, is retiring from Scotland Yard, on the grounds of ill-health.
[In addition to being chief of the Criminal Investigation department since 1903, Sir Melville MacNaghten is also assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police. He is 63 years of age. Between 1889 and 1903 he was chief constable of the Criminal Investigation department at Scotland Yard, and was appointed to represent the police in Mr. Asquith's committee which inquired into the question of the identification of criminals in 1904. He was created a Knight in 1907. Sir Melville MacNaghten recently paid a visit to Australia.]

Source: The Argus, Saturday 17 May 1913, page 19