His ingenuity was shown in a manner that would have done credit to a Sherlock Holmes. Seeing a man in the street who resembled the description of a murderer, Mr. Quincey wished to arrest him, but feared to do so, for, had he been mistaken, an action for damages might have followed; so what did he do but send his plainciothis man to pick a quarrel with the suspect so that he could confine than both for fighting on the streets> And the suspect duly proved to be the right man, In the times just after the Boxer Rebellion, Mr. Quincey was asked to come to Tientsin by the then Taotai Tang Shao-yi. The foreign armies had been removed and the city was without efficient police. Bringing with him a squad of fifty Indians, Mr. Quincey took charge and brought together the nucleus of the present Chinese constabulary in that city. Before leaving this position to go to Shantung he. increased the force to 2,500, uniformed and plain-clothes. The authorities of Tsinanfu, as the city was opened to foreigners, brought him for the same purpose, as in Tientsin. His five years here kept the force up to the mark until the Japanese occupation.
Mr. Quincey is well known in Shanghai police circles, by reputation with the foreign force, and because of his work in the Nantao Force. Just prior to his leaving for Tientsin, he remained in the native city to improve the moral of the native police. Since 1912 the Shanghai-Nanking Railroad has claimed his services. The numerous native smugglers, as well as some of the lower-class white people who have attempted to evade the law with respect to opium and morphia products, have been brought to the bar of justice because of his personal efforts and those of his subordinates, trained by him.
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