Alibi
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, October 4
The clue of the ball-point pens led detectives to Mr John Cramp, says the “Daily Mail." Yes, he had visited 3 pubs which had been burgled. Yes, he had left a ball-point pen behind at each one. But Mr Cramp was writing a guide book to pubs and the ball-point pens were an advertisement for his ironmongery business in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. For half an hour detectives questioned Mr Cramp about his visits to the Fox at Bix, the White Heart at Nettlebed. and the Crown at Pishill, all near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Was it not suspicious that he had been asking how much stock they kept and taking notes about the layout? Or that soon afterwards these pubs were burgled? And was it coincidence that in each pub the police found one of those ballpoint pens’ Mr Cramp said: “1 pointed out that whenever I burgle a pub I leave a pen with my name on it to make it easier for our over-worked police force.” A police spokesman said: “We are satisfied Mr Cramp had nothing to do with the robberies.” Mr Cramp is a magistrate.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 17
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193Alibi Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30563, 5 October 1964, Page 17
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