Albert de Rutzen
Sir Albert de Rutzen was chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts in the United Kingdom. He was knighted in 1901.[1]
De Rutzen was stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales from 1872 to 1876. He became a Metropolitan Police magistrate in London in 1876 to 1913, becoming Chief Magistrate in 1901, when he was knighted.[2]
In 1910, de Rutzen issued the arrest warrant for Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve, for the murder of Crippen's wife.[3] Crippen and Le Neve were on a ship to Canada were arrested on their arrival in Quebec. Crippen was convicted and executed and Le Neve was acquitted.
In 1872, de Rutzen married Horatia Augusta Stepney Gulston of Carmarthenshire.[2] He died on 22 September 1913.[4]
References[]
- ^ Shaw, William Arthur. (1970). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day &c. Vol. Vol. I. Clearfield. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-8063-0443-4.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ a b Walford, Edward (1919). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. London: Spottiswoode Balantyne & Co. p. 373.
- ^ "Crippen & Miss le Neve - both charged with murder". The Guardian. 20 August 1910.
- ^ Cincinnati Enquirer, September 23, 1913
External links[]
- "Horatia Augusta Gulston". The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography. – photograph and biographical details of Lady Horatia de Rutzen
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