“TAKEN FOR A RIDE”

Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 9

“TAKEN FOR A RIDE”

MAH RIDDLED WITH BULLETS GANGSTER METHODS IN ENGLAND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 25. The discovery of the bullet-riddled body of a scar-faced elderly mani thought to be a bookmaker, under a hedge outside St. Albans, and subset quent investigations indicate that tra-i ditional Chicago gangster methods hard at last been adopted in England, posi sibly as the outcome of a race ganjj feud. . The customary baffling features ard presented. A village carpenter di» covered' the corpse early on the morn* ing of January 24, noting that, though it had rained all night, the clothing, including a buttoned-up overcoat, waa completely dry. The police believe that the victim was “ taken for a ride ” from a Wes| End night club, “ put on the spot ” in a motor car, and dumped on the road* side. No revolver was found. It id believed that the victim, accompanied by a man and a woman, called at q roadside cafe in the village of London! colney at midnight on January 23. DEALER IN JEWELLERY LONDON, January 25. The St. Albans victim was a French Canadian, Emil Allard. He lived in a single room in St. James street, Lon* don. He arrived in England in 1933, and was an itinerant jewellery dealer, not a bookmaker. His only male friend saw him the night before the body was found. It is believed he had £2OO worth of jewellery in his possession, and the motive of the crime was pos* sibly robbery.