by Andrew Cook
2 Harold Brust, I Guarded Kings, Hillman-Curl Inc., New York 1936.
3 The Political Background of the Houndsditch murders and the Sidney Street Siege, undated report with appendices, TNA KV3/39.
4 The Times, 9 May 1911.
5 Frederick Porter Wensley, Detective Days, Cassell and Co, 1931.
6 Appendix to The Political Background of the Houndsditch Murders, &c, ibid. Gardstein was the wounded man who died.
7 Houndsditch 1910 in TNA KV 3/39.
8 He was hidden for four days at 24A, Dock Road, North Woolwich, before getting out of the country. See note 1 above.
9 Archie Potts’s account of James Melville’s life (Metropolitan Police Museum) cites The Times of 3 May 1911.
10 Private letter to Archie Potts from Mary Melville (James’s daughter), 29 March 1988, Metropolitan Police Museum, ibid.
11 Anthony Wood, Great Britain 1900-1965, Longman 1968, p.72.
12 The Ilfracombe holiday is referred to in the diary of Vernon Kell, 3 and 5 September 1910, TNA KV 1/10 and in the Ilfracombe Gazette and Observer, 29 August 1910.
13 See The Times 18 March 1912 p.3 col. D, and 23 March 1912 p.7 col. a.
14 Christopher Andrew, Secret Service, Heinemann 1985, p.61.
15 Steinhauer, the Kaiser’s Master Spy, ed. Sidney Felstead, The Bodley Head 1930.
16 Hampshire Telegraph, Friday 16 February 1912.
17 The Times Saturday 10 February 1912 p.7 col. a. He was released after hostilities began in 1914 and put on the ‘watch’ list rather than being interned. He died before the end of the war.
18 Steinhauer, ibid.
19 Dr Armgaard Karl Graves, Secrets of the German War Office, T. Werner Laurie 1914.
20 Graves, ibid.
21 Steinhauer, ibid., p. 19.
22 20 Michael Smith in The Spying Game, Politico’s Publishing 2003, cites (p73) Holt-Wilson for Melville’s authorship of the list. However there was more than one, as later notes to this chapter confirm.
23 S.W. List XX: List of persons to be arrested in case of war, TNA KV 1/7.
24 The Times, Thursday 21 November 1912, p.4 col. c.
25 Steinhauer, ibid. pp.67 et seq. According to Steinhauer, Hentschel had been recruited in 1908, when he was a waiter in London.
26 Steinhauer, ibid.
27 The Times Thursday 21 November 1912, p.4 col. c.
28 Witnesses called to the hearing attested to his travel and also his bank payments. The Times, 4 December 1912, p.3 col. g.
29 The Times, Tuesday 19 November 1912, p.4 col. f.
30 The Times, Friday 17 January 1913, p.38 col. e.
31 Melville’s detectives appear from TNA KV 1/44 f.57 (re Hagn) to have been known as the Special Staff; this would date from 1913-14 when their number began to increase.
32 Steinhauer, ibid.
33 Steinhauer, ibid., p.64.
34 MI5 Steinhauer file, ibid.
35 Losel was known to the authorities. He was on a list of persons to be jailed on the outbreak of war.
36 Steinhauer, ibid.
37 MI5 Steinhauer file, ibid.
38 TNA KV 1/7, ff45-7 ‘persons to be arrested in case of war’ last amended on or after 30 July 1914; Daily Chronicle, 15 July 1915. I am indebted to Nick Hiley for his research and observations concerning the 1914 arrests on which I have relied in this chapter.
39 Hector C. Bywater and H.C. Ferraby, Strange Intelligence: Memoirs of Naval Secret Service, Constable 1931.
40 Hector C. Bywater and H.C. Ferraby, ibid.
Chapter 12: G Men
1 TNA DPP 1/29 Court Martial of Carl Hans Lody otherwise Charles A. Inglis, held at Westminster Guildhall 30 October to 2 November 1914.
2 Sidney T. Felstead, German Spies at Bay, Hutchinson and Co 1920; also John Fraser, then a Yeoman Warder of the Tower, whose sensitive account is reproduced in ‘Stephen’s Study Room’ at www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/karl_lody.htm_.
3 MI5 records (TNA KV 1/59 and TNA KV 1/69) list them as John Regan (joined 7 June 1911), Henry Fitzgerald (1 November 1912), William Burrell (5 May 1915), Arthur Hailstone (6 June 1915), C. Tartellin (17 December 1915), A. Regan sic (18 September 1916) and P. Whittome (1 November 1916). They were collectively known as the ‘Special Staff’.
4 Chart marked ‘Secret’, Directorate of Special Intelligence Showing Channels of Control, Templewood Papers, II, 4a (3), Cambridge University Library.
5 See Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Hutchinson 2001, and Christopher Andrew, Secret Service, Heinemann 1985.
6 Felstead, ibid.
7 Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia: the History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988, Routledge 1989, p.135. The information comes from a handwritten memoir that belongs to Professor John Dancy whose father, Dr Jack Dancy, wrote it half a century later (dancy Memoirs, pp.1132, 1460, 1481ff, 1690ff, 1912, 1937ff). Alan Judd, in The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service, Harper Collins 2000, quite rightly casts doubt on the claim that Sidney Reilly was present at a lecture in 1915.
8 Michael Smith, The Spying Game: the Secret History of British Espionage, Politico’s Publishing 2003.
9 Letter from John Ross, Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard to the author, 18 December 2003.
10 Judd, ibid., p. 377.
11 ‘They were given a history lesson by a cousin of the current Lord Chancellor, who taught them how espionage had a long, continuous and proud tradition in Britain, right back to the time of Walsingham.’ – Bernard Porter, ibid., p.135. Porter’s book was published in 1989. The Lord Chancellor until 1987 was Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham.
12 Felstead, ibid.
13 Felstead, ibid. The ‘police’ are detectives from Melville’s section. (In Felstead’s account, written with information supplied by Basil Thomon of Special Branch, they are referred to as police).
14 TNA KV 1/41 and 42, TNA KV 1/39-44, and TNA WO 141/2/2.
15 TNA KV 1/42 p.72 et seq.
16 General Court Martial of Willem Johannes Roos and Haicke Marinus Petrus Janssen held at Westminster Guildhall 17 July 1915. TNA WO 71/1312.
17 Fitch, ibid.
18 TNA KV1/42 para. 1251.
19 TNA KV1/42 para. 1258.
20 She died in Broadmoor, the asylum for the criminally insane, in 1921.
21 Roland Wild and Derek Curtis-Bennett, Curtis, Cassell and Co. 1937.
22 Herbert Fitch in Traitors Within, ibid., relates the case; it is among those of which Melville (who is not mentioned) had charge.
23 Information on George Vaux Bacon and associated cases is from TNA KV 1/42 series p.155.
24 TNA KV 1/44, f57, Felstead, in German Spies at Bay, ibid.
25 p.113 in the Folio Society edition of 1999.
26 Will of William Melville, Esq, ibid.
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