FURNACE ARRESTED
CHAKGE OF MTJEDEE
POLICE MAN HUNT ENDS
(Received 16th January, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 15th January. Samuel James Furnace, 39, was distovered staying at a house/ in Southend. He was taken into custody and charged with murder. This was the bald statement of the police, marking the end of one of the most intensive man hunts in the history of English crime. Furnace had not disguised himself, and did not Tesist when he was apprehended sitting before : the fire, his reluctance to. leave which was ascribed to illness by his aged landlady.
A week ago Scotland Yard broadcast tho fact that Samuel Furnace was "wanted" for. the murder of Walter Spatchett, whose body was found amid' the ruins of a burned shed at Chalk Farm. The announcement followed a five days' hunt for, Furnace, in which 50,000 police throughout the country wore engaged. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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