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LONDON COMB-OUT HUNDREDS ENGAGED TRACING OF SUSPECTS (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. Every available Scotland Yard man is out hunting, inquiring or rubbing shoulders with shady characters in the night haunts of inner London looking for traces of the killers of the motorcyclist, Mr. Alexander de Antiquis, who died from a revolver shot when he attempted to intervene in the smash-and-grab raid on Tuesday. Scotland Yard has dropped everything else except major crimes. London's underworld is not proving responsive to Scotland Yard’s appeal, but officers are, confident that some source will produce a hint to help in tracing the gunmen. Scotland Yard has received many communications from the public, and has invited more. The Evening Standard says two “gunminded former Borstal boys,” who have been missing from their usual London haunts since Mr. de Antiquis was shot, are on the shortening list of suspects which hundreds of Scotland Yard detectives are now carrying.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 5
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156SEARCH FOR KILLER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 5
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