We regret to have to record the death of Mr. William Quincey, the late chief of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Police. Mr. Quincey, who was 76 years of age, retired from service less than a year ago. Within a very short while he suffered a severe shock through the death of his wife and his death occurred on night, at his home, Gordon Cottage, Woosung Road.
The late Mr. Quincey was one of the most romantic figures in China. Every one knew him as the protege of Chinese Gordon" and many sought his acquaintance in order to hear his narratives of the ring limes of the ' alpings. He a most engaging chai ter, with a wonderful geniality, ready to receive callers even the small hours of the morning and he would always oblige with some exciting story. Gordon found the boy, then but a few years old, abandoned in the ruins of his native village, near Quinsan, just after the Taipings had ruined it. The boy was seared of the great General and Gordon actually had to keep him tied up until he got him away from China, but it was the making of young Quincey.
Gordon took the boy Home, gave him a perfect schooling and later sent him to Aldershot for five he had_a thorough raining, rdon's ter took a great fancy to him and Mr. Quincey used to recall with gratitude her never ceasing efforts mo to teach him the culture of the circle into which he had been adopted. Young Quincey made the best use of this valuable training and, when still a very young man, he returned to China' for service in the Hongkong Police under Captain Deane. He had an aptitude for acquiring Chinese dialects, he was a. master in the disguise and he vi soon svose to be Chief Chinese Tnvestigator.
Tt was of his work in this office that he used to tell pine partion-Ta order coolie, a hawker, a whatever was a suitable would frequent the wor: dens or robber haunts a times he would have t s in them, with his bfe riger all the time. He used to say with pride, "It was worth it, though, for I seldom came away without my man."
After the Boxer Rebellion, Tang Shao-yi at Tientsin was' only too thankful to secure—the ser views of Mr. Quincey, with 50 Indians under his orders, to establish something like order in that sadly wrecked city. Mr. Quincey soon put things straight and established the" nucleus Tientsin's present splendid police. Later on he did the same for Tsinanfu and then, when he was
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