RAT CLUE TO CRIME
Famous Detective’s Career Superintendent Francis Carlin, a member of the original '.“Big Five” at Scotland Yard, who was engaged in the Mahon, Vaquier, Field, and .Grey, and other murder cases, died recently. -A button missing from a soldier’s overcoat once led him to suspect a discharged soldier, David Greenwood, for the murder of Nellie, Trew, on Eltham. Common, in 1918. A trilby hat, and the movements of a rat which revealed a bag of stolen cash helped Mr.,'Carlin to trace the four men who were sentenced for the Berkeley Hotel robbery in 1913. “Most criminals are blondes with blue eyes,” .Superintendent Carlin stated in his book of reminiscences, which he published after his retirement three years ago.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 22
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121RAT CLUE TO CRIME Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 22
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