A CRIME DETECTED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 18

A CRIME DETECTED

Three Slender Clues

How' a piece of grease-proof paper, a heel-mark in soot, and a torn piece of a bankrnotei-weye vital clues Jn identify-* ing and. bringing to justice two daring burglars was .told in the Aberdeen .Sheriff Court, recently. - John ’Ramensky, aged 28, and Marco Demarco, aged 27, both of Glasgow, pleaded guilty to. breaking into a baker's, premises in Aberdeen, blowing ■open a-safe with explosives, and stealing £246. ■ ’ .. . ‘ . 'Prosecuting counsel said that the burglary was discovered on a Sunday morning. The safe was wide open and the fireplace was full of soot, and a piece of a 10/- note was found on a desk. It was obvious that explosives had been put into the keyhole of the safe and electrically ignited.' ? „ .' ‘ ’ Among the soot in* the fireplace wag found a piece of paper with a Glasgow mark on.it. In a room up- , stairs was found a rubber heel-mark made by soot. Access to the building had been gained by means of a waterpipe and n window, and the police were convinced that the burglary was the work of expert criminate. They got in touch with the Glasgow* C.1.D., and were,able to get a description of the suspects. They also communicated with the police at Perth, and the first, train to. pass through Perth from Aberdeen on the Sunday morning was searched.. ' •

When the police officers entered the train at Perth, Ramensky pretended to be asleep, but they saw from his manner that he was greatly agitated. There was a struggle before the men;'were captured. Ramensky'made a dash for liberty, and there was an exciting chase before he was retaken. •’ The.stolen money was found on them, and in' Ramensky’s - possession was a torn piece of a .10/- note that fitted into the piece discovered in the burgled pre-, mises. The heel-mark in the soot was found to be identical with Demarco’s. “Ramensky appears tb be a daring, persistent and dangerous • criminal,” added counsel, “and he is bent on a criminal career. He was the moving spirit in the’ burglary," „ Counsel said that Ramensky was born In Scotland of Lithuanian parents. He was'sent to Borstal at the age of 16, and since then he bad had seven convictions. During the short intervals he enjoyed freedom' he was as a commissiontagefat in the Glasgow district. ..'i.'/ . > '". ~ Demarco, a brother-in-law of Ramensky, was bbrn in Glasgow of an Italian father and A Scottish mother. . During , the summer be assisted his relatives at a refreshment place in Portobello. Bobb men were married. ~ '' The Sheriff Dallas remitted both men to the High Court for sentence.