Gifts to Captors of Sir Henry Wilson's Murderers In recognition of tha gallantry and devotion to duty they displayed on the occasion of the arrest of the murderers of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, the two police-constables, Walter John March and Cecil Sayer, as well as the taxicab driver, Alexander Clark, who were all wounded, were each presented on July 22 with a gold watch and chain as a tribute from the rosidents of Eaton-place, in the neighbourhood of which Dunn and O'Sullivan, after a desperate attempt to escape, were eventusily arrested.
The presentation took place at the residence of the Duke of Atholl, 84, Eaton-place, and the ceremony was performed by the Duchess in one of the drawing-rooms, to which personal friends of the officers and their comrades of Gerrard-street Police Station were invited.
In handing the watches to the men, the Duchess remarked that the officers had lived up to the highest traditions of their force, whether they were on duty or off duty, or whether in uniform or out of uniform. They si d no hesitation in taking a share in a difficult and dangerous task. The efforts of the lice would have been greatly ampered and there might have been further casualties before any arrests were made if people like Clark had not vindicated the fiindamental instinct of our race for the preservation of law and order. The attitude of men like Clark had greatly strengthened public confidence.
Replying on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, Supt. Hawkins, of the C.I.D., said the police would have been powerless on that and other occasions but for the moral and physical support of the civilian population, and one of the greatest assets of the police to-day was the knowledge that they could always rely on members of the public on occasion of emergency. The fact that the public did take an active part in assisting in the arrest of Sir Henry Wilson's assassins would have a. far-reaching effect.
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