The Courier and Argus (Dundee) July 18, 1900; p. 5; Issue 14684

Chief Detective-Lieutenant Carmichael, who retired from Glasgow police force last month, died yesterday afternoon. His successor Sub-Inspector Detective Gordon, of the Central, was appointed yesterday. Lieut. Carmichael was not only head of the Detective Department, but was known and loved by a wide circle of friends from Glasgow to Scotland Yard, as be was known and feared by equally a wide circle of criminals. He was sixty-one years of age.


Glasgow Herald July 18, 1900
DEATH OF A GLASGOW DETECTIVE.—We regret to announce the death of Detective Lieutenant Archd. Carmichael, which took place yesterday afternoon. On 14th May Mr Carmichael found it necessary, owing to the state of his health, to retire from the Glasgow Police Force, with which he had been associated for the long period of 41 years. Mr Carmichael had been ailing for about eight months from a heart trouble, and in the beginning of this year he was laid aside for about six weeks. After he resumed duty his health continued in an unsatisfactory state, and at the end of April he was again compelled to remain indoors, suffering from a heart trouble. Lithe and active, Mr Carmichael in his prime was able to tackle any criminal, however swift of foot or strong of arm. Gifted with a retentive memory of facts and faces, he rendered valuable service, more especially in the tracking of housebreakers, pickpockets, and swell thieves. He was a capital witness, always remaining cool, no matter how hot the fire of cross-examination, and he had that invaluable quality in a witness of never saying more than was necessary. Mr Carmichael, who was a native of Kilbrandon, in Argyleshire, entered the Glasgow police service on 30th May, 1859, as a constable, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant in June, 1864. In March, 1869, he became a detective officer, and in November, 1874, he was transferred from the Central to the Northern Division to act as sub-inspector of detectives. A few years later he returned to the Central Office, and on 8th July, 1889, his long and faithful and valuable services were tardily rewarded by his appointment as outdoor inspector of detectives, with the rank of lieutenant. To narrate the cases with which Mr Carmichael was associated would almost be to write the history of crime in Glasgow for a generation. It may be recalled, however, that Mr Carmichael's services in connection with the arrest of the dynamitards who blew up the Tradeston gasometer in January, 1883, were rewarded by a sum of money and a silver medal. Mr Carmichael was a man of high moral character, and was held in general esteem. He was an office-bearer in Great Hamilton Street Free' Church. It will be re-membered that so recently as June 25 Lieutenant Carmichael was presented with £550 by a nuinerous and influential body of citizens.


Glasgow Herald July 21, 1900
FUNERAL OF LIEUTENANT CARMICHAEL.
—The remains of Lieutenant Archibald Carmichael, of the Detective Department of the Glasgow Police Force, were interred in the New Cathcart Cemetery yesterday. The funeral was of a public character, which was fitting enough considering how largely Mr Carmichael bulked in the public eye and how familiar his name was to many who never enjoyed his personal acquaintance. Fully three-quarters of an hour before the funeral service took place a considerable crowd collected in the vicinity of the late lieutenant’s residence in Monteith Row. Mr Carmichael was  an office-bearer in Great Hamilton Street Free Church, and the minister of that congregation, Rev. Dr Eaton, conducted a short service in the house, while simultaneously a service was held the church by Rev. Matthew Millar, the missionary of the congregation. There was a large representation of all ranks of the police service, which bore testimony to the esteem in which the members of the force held their late colleague. The turnout of officers of the detective department- where Mr Carmichael won his laurels— was especially large. Shortly after three o'clock the coffin, which was of light polished oak, crowned with a beautiful wreath provided by the police force, was borne to the hearse by Chief-Inspector Mathewson, Lieutenant William Gordon, Sub-Inspector Elliot, and Sub-Inspector Alexander Gordon, of the Central Detective Department. The procession was then formed. Four constables followed the hearse, and after them came the Police Band, under Bandmaster Jarvis, and following the band were the detective officers already named. After them came a large body of policemen, headed by Deputy Chief-Constable Orr. A long string of carriages followed. As the procession started the Police Band began to play the solemn strains of the “Dead March in Saul.” The route of the procession was by Greendyke Street, Saltmarket, and Crown Street and Cathcart Road. Large crowds watched the progress of the procession with sympathetic interest, The police officers and the band accompanied the procession to the head of Crown Street. Here they formed into a double line, the mourning coaches passing slowly between. The wreath provided by the police force bore the following inscription :— “In loving memory of Lieutenant Archibald Carmichael, from brother officers.” The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs Wylie & Lochhead.