AMERICAN MURDER CASE
“SHERLOCK HOLMES" DEDUCTIONS ARREST OF MOUNTED POLICEMAN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, August 7.
Deductions reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and based on six lumps of sugar found! in the pocket of a French' woman, Miss Irma Pradier, aged 27, who was shot dead on July 20, reached a climax in the arrest of Arthur Chalmers, aged 35, a mounted policeman, who is married and has two chih dren. Ho will be charged with murder. Detectives discovered that Miss Pradier was a lover of horses and was friendly with a number of troopers. They deduced from the lumps of sugar that she had arranged to meet a trooper on the night she was murdered. They questioned many troopers, and Chalmers adtnitted that he had met Miss Pradier on July 20, but he denied having committed murder.
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Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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138AMERICAN MURDER CASE Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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