“PUT ON THE SPOT”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12769, 27 January 1936, Page 5

“PUT ON THE SPOT”

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ITINERANT JEWELLER FOUND MURDERED.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! (Received Jan. 2(1. 0.40 p.m.! LONDON. Jan. 2d

The discovery of the bullet-riddled body of a ’soar-faced elderly itinerant jeweller, a French Canadian named Emil Allarcl; under a - hedge outside St. Albans, and subsequent investigations indicate that traditional Chicago gangster ‘methods have at' last been

adopted in England. The customary baffling features are present.

A village carpenter discovered the corpse early on the morning of damn ary 24,- noting that though It had rained all night, the clothing, including a buttohed-up overcoat, was completely dry. '■ ' i • The police believe that the victim was “taken for a ride” from a West End night club, “put on the spot” in a motor car, and dumped on the roadside, No revolver has been found. It is believed that the victim ac-

companied by a man and a woman, called at a roadhouse cafe in Millage. near London, at midnight on January 23.

i Allard lived in a single room in St. James Street,,London. Ho came to England in 1933. '- His only mate friend saw him the liiglit before the body was found. It is believed he had £2OOO worth bf jewellery in his possession. The motive of the crime is possibly robbery.