Elusive 'Mad Parson' Caught After Two Years
(11 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. The police stated today that they believed they had caught Britain’s most elusive lunatic, John Edward Allen, the “Mad Parson,” who has been at large for two years. 1
Allen, who was found guilty of strangling to death a baby in 1937, escaped from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum disguised as a parson on July 20,1947. He is a talented actor and a man of many disguises. When he escaped, a suitcase containing seven different theatrical disguises was found to be missing from Broadmoor.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22951, 20 May 1949, Page 5
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