Vancouver Police Department: Committed Suicide

Vpd Dept: She had been hired as an executive secretary posted to the office of chief Walter Mulligan. Soon after her arrival, a commission of inquiry would begin to investigate reports that Mulligan had been taking bribes from gamblers and bootleggers, and that the force was riddled with corruption, according to Vancouver Sun. Despite all this, Ambrose remained a loyalist. Nothing was ever proven against Mulligan, she said, and charges were never laid. She continued to work for the VPD until 1960, when she married deputy chief Gordon Ambrose and in 1955, Jeanne Ambrose joined the Vancouver police department and found herself as a bystander to the biggest scandal ever to hit the force. During the inquiry, Supt. Harry Whelan committed suicide, and the head of the city's gambling squad, Len Cuthbert, attempted it. Meanwhile, Mulligan applied for landed immigrant status in the U.S. and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a limousine dispatcher at the Los Angeles airport. In 1956, the inquiry found that Mulligan had taken bribes, but the attorney-general's office ruled it didn't have enough evidence to support the inquiry's finding and would not take the case to court. Mulligan returned to Canada and retired to Oak Bay. Jack Webster, who was making his name covering the inquiry, called it a "whitewash." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.