Pogo Fou'r
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, April 28, 1957
Page Fou- THE MICHIGAN-DAILY-Sund I Afl , 1957
BOW STREET RUNNER
Henry Goddard: Memoirs of an Engaging Pre-Holmes Sherlock
"Me m o irs o f a B ow S tr e et to the public but f or the editosial ment the company (of crhuinals) have been f orf eited and broken if the culprit was caught, he w as
Runner," by Henry Goddard; efforts of Ptrick Pringle, author appeased in great suspense, and I his poor mother's heart, who was prosecuted at the victim's own ex-
' of the book about this same his- then disclosed the nature of our respectably connected.'' pense. Thi being the caae, most
edited by Patrick Pringle; Wm. torical group of "thief-takers," visit. One and all their counten- Strange goings-on in a law, people were satisfied with the re-
Morrow & Co., Inc., New York; Hue and Cry. ances brightened up, and they court, but such was not an unusual turn of the stolen property and did
253 pp.; $4.75. Although Goddard's escapades thanked us for the manly and wcurrence. This book, therefore, is not care about the punishment of
often read like a twentieth-century straightforward manner in which of interest to anyone wanting his- the guilty party.
By BARBARA LEWIS police thriller, his way of handling we had come forward to give them tory with a new Slant, especially Pringle also has done research
HIDDEN AWAY among the God- a case is peculiarly nineteenth- the warning." This is indeed a people interested in the back- to prove the authenticity of the
dard family heirlooms, the century-English. Assigned to guard strange sort of relationship be- ground of many of Dickens' works. memoirs and to check the factual
Eglington tournament guests from tween "cops and robbers," but ap- Here's a peek at English life: matter by comparing Goddard's
memoirs of Henry Goddard did theft, he and a fellow officer de- parently this arrangement worked " Thomas, who was dressed accounts to old records (when
not come to light until 1949, the cide on a plan of prevention. They well: there were no thefts at the in a new suit of Velveteen, entered available) and to newspaper ar-
second centennial anniversary of v i s it the more active "flash expensive Eglington pageant! at the Bar. Then, while drinking ticles. When pertinent, the infor-
the founding of the Bow Street houses" (criminal hangouts) and over two glasses of Blockey's re- mation is presented as an append-
Runners (the London detective warn the pickpockets that they 'JHE BOOK is of interest to his- nowned Wiltshire Ale . .." age to each episode. He was able
force preceding and finally giving have orders to arrest on sight any torians as well, for it gives an There is no mention of parlia- to check nearly every case, includ-
way to the present Scotland Yard.) known suspicious characters. They excellent picture of institutions mntary politics or artistic trends ing one that was hushed up so
Even then the manuscript was mu- enter the first hangout and are common to England and other na- in this book; these are just the successfully that it never reached
seumized and would have been lost greeted with alarm: "At this mo- tions during the period of God- memoirs of a representative lower- the Press. This authenticity may
- ---dard's service, about 183-l0. middle-class English citizen, his. not seem important to the first
ecause so many crimes were rap- escapades as a member of the cele- few cases, but certainly is neces-
ital offenses, juries were inclined brated Bow Street Runners. sary when Goddard speaks of such
to return strange verdicts. One of services as that to the King of
the cases in the book describes the EDITOR Pringle has prefaced England.
trial of a young arsonist who the set of thirty-four episodes Through the selection of adven-
pleaded guilty as charged. All with an extended but very inter- tures and his almost naive style,
evidence, was against him, but to esting history of the Runners. one gets to know Henry Goddard
11Kcu ;spare him death punishment the They were founded in 1749, at a as a man sympathetic, kind and
jury returned a verdict of not time when all police work was done generous, extremely courageous
guilty. "The prisoner 1 o o k e d by private enterprise. "Police" and intelligent, somewnat of the
around the court in a state of meant something on the order of snob (especially in the delight of
amazement, and said, 'What, not the French gendarmes, represent- his services to aristocrats and fam-
guilty!' " Says Goddard character- ing to the English a restriction of ous people), and as a lover of good
istically: "I was not sorry at the freedom. If one was robbed, one food.
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