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By the way, Moller offered me a new appointment so that i would not leave him, but decided to make a move. As for Securicor, if they had pressed on as urged, they would have been very wealthy by this time. Apparently money was very tight in those days and Henry Tiarks preferred to sell the business after had done all the re-organisation work to establish it by 1952 as financially successful, with bright prospects of expanding.
i have been reading the Whittie kidnapping case of late and thought they, the police, would run into trouble. The case was not moving right and there was too much publicity. You will recall the last kidnapping case was run by the Yard in London when the woman victim was cut up and fed to the pigs? About 1969 i think. Wife of Daily Mirrow etc Editor.? I read that case with interest at the opening and went so far as to offer my help gratis to the Australian Editor concerned. Apparently he thought the Yard men would be sufficient.?
My solicitor friend next door urged me to offer my services in the Whittle case as thought it was going wrong, but 1 thought it would be a waste of time offering my help gratis as before.
in Shanghai i assisted with armed kidnapping investigations when we had a spate of them. With that build up of experience I learned a lot. i handled four as the ufficer -in-Charge and each time gotthe victims released unharmed and made arrests without the ransome being paid. it is a deadly kind of work, with a life at stake, and not the kind of case to entrust to anyone unless well experienced in such class of crime. in my last case we made two abortive attempts to meet up with the gangsters and hand over the ransome money. The victim was a banker's wife. I was given one more chance by the husband and this time kept all my moves secret. Not mentioning a word even to the four detectives assisting me on the case. We always worked with a few men and left the routine checks to those in the office. I phoned my men to meet me at a hotel on the final night and explained the moves. Then we were off. followed the bank messaneger with the money from hotel to hotel,as the gangsters changed their moves, to make sure he was not being followed. Then at one busy street corner in the city five gangeters suddently gathered about him. in a small furniture van.
We had followed We rushed out and in the gun fight I shot dead two of the gangsters in a running fight and my men got another alive. The other two darted off and were lost in the crowd. it took me a few terrible minutes to get the prisoner to talk and to rush off to save the victim.
From that
you can judge how tough such cases are to break.
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From what 4 have read of the Whittie case think I could have broken it successfully, une learns from experience and from being a top sleuth kept hard at work. I never allowed the press to learn of my pians, or follow my moves, but did promise them full coverage immediatedly developments allowed for this to be safely done. The lives of my men were also at stake. carried the death penalty. I still have the press cuttings last case.
Armed kidnapping
I hope we meet again sometime.
Yours sincerely
Jacks
A.G.Tilton.
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