THE LATE MR. J. McD. K.
MISICK.
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We regret to record the death at Lahore on Sunday last of Mr. J. McD. K. Misick, Superintendent of Police. Mr. Misick who art the time of his death, was Personal Assistant to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, C.I.D., had been in indifferent health for some time, and it is to be feared that his strong sense of duty was largely responsible for his untimely end. In the midst of his strenuous work in the Criminal Investigation Department, he went into Camp with the Light Horse, and though then suffering from attacks of fever, endeavoured to carry on his double duties. When it became impossible for him to continue longer his illness was past remedy and he died on Sunday afternoon from a severe attack of enteric fever. Mr. Misick was appointed to the Punjaub Police in 1904, and he was an officer of exceptional ability and great promise, whom it will be very difficult to replace. He was very popular in his own service, and indeed with all who knew him, and in Lahore Society he will be greatly missed. The funeral took place at Lahore Cemetery on Monday morning, many police officers and the Light Horse being present to pay a farewell to their departed comrade.
A correspondent states that the late Mr. Misick, whose death was reported yesterday, was a son of Mr. Terence Misick of Somerset, Bermuda. He was educated at Heidelberg and passed into the Indian Police at the Home examination in 1904. Mr. Misick returned in September last from the Persian Gulf, where he did excellent work in connection with the suppression of the traffic in arms, and he then took over charge of the Special Branch of the Punjab Criminal Intelligence Department, in which appointment he was working up to Tuesday last. He was then obliged to take to his bed with what appeared to be a severe attack of influenza. On Thursday his condition became critical, and it was discovered he was suffering from ambulant enteric fever, which unfortunately developed in a virulent form.
Mr. Misick was buried on Monday morning with full military honours, to [sic] service being conducted by the Rev. H. T. Wheeler, Chaplain of Lahore Cathedral. The firing party and a mounted escort were provided by the Punjab Light Horse, of which corps the late Mr. Misick was a member, and eight of his brother officers of the Indian Police bore the coffin to the grave. Lieutenant - Colonel H. T. Dennys, Inspector General of Police, Punjab, and several other officers of the Punjab Police followed in the precession [sic]. Lieutenant - Colonel E. C. Bayley, C.I.E., represented H.M. the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, and Mr. C. A. Barron, C.I.E., Chief Secretary, Mr. A. B. Kettlewell, I.C.S., and Colonel M. T. Pease, C.I.E., commanding the Punjab Light Horse, were also present.