One or two events of importance have named at Bow
Street Police Court in the Detectives' case. On Saturday a warrant was issued for the immediate apprehension of Chief Inspector Clarke, who has been in the detective service for thirty-seven years, and is second officer of the Department. It seems that the Treasury began to suspect Clarke's complicity, in consequence of certain things which came to light in the course of the investigation. Ben- ton had referred to a packet of letters, containing some of Clarke's, which had been sent to Essex Road, but had never been delivered. This statement was deemed improbable ; but such a packet has actually been discovered at the Dead-Letter Office, and the Treasury has deemed it necessary to charge Clarke with having received £150 for allowing Kurr and his companions to escape. Clarke's own account of the matter is that the charge has been fabricated by the convicts, in retaliation for his sue- easeful energy in prosecuting a fraudulent betting fraternity. Meantime, Sir James Ingham has committed Inspector Palmer, and refused to accept bail. Incidentally the salaries of some of the ebief detectives were mentioned in the course of the evidence, and it appeared that the second in rank, after thirty-seven years' service, received only 2276 a year !
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