MURDER CLUE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 13

MURDER CLUE

AN ASTUTE DETECTIVE. The victim of the Paris “room. No. 13" trunk murder has been identified and other important information obtained as a result of the arithmetical aptitude of one of the police inspectors engaged in the investigations, writes the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” The trunk, containing the body of a young man whose throat had been cut, was discovered in room No. 13 of a small hotel in the Rue Faubourg St. Honore. It had been left there on January 2 by two men. one of whom booked the room, paid his rent in advance, and disappeared on the following day, after giving a false name. Two scraps of paper in thei pockets of the dead man’s jacket, on which the names of a number of cafes were written, with an amount in francs against each, provided the all-import-ant clue.

One of the police inspectors was struck by. the fact that each of the amounts on the scraps of paper was a multiple of 3.5 centimes. This, he found, was the price of a roll of bread two years ago. before a number of increases which have since taken place. The proprietors of the cafes were then asked where they bought their rolls two years ago, and it was soon discovered that the dead man was Victor Juguet, a baker’s errand boy. Marcel Juguet, the dead boy’s brother, whom the. police discovered after a search, identified, the body. He said that he had not come forward with information previously, as he thought that his brother was working in a French Trans-Atlantic linei. Police inquiries showed that the dead man had recently worked on the linei Paris.