MURDER WILL OUT
THE LAW’S LONG ARM. SECURES A MURDERER. CLEVER. DETECTIVE WORK. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT _ Received Dec. 2, 10.50 a.m. . PARIS, Dec. 1. A man named Lezare Tessier has been arrested on a charge of murdering Louis Poulay, whose body was, half a year ago, found in the "Bois de Boulogne, with .the head battered in. The crime was traced in a remarkable manner. Tessier ran a clandestine betting business and Pourlay was one of his clients. A detective, on making a microscopic eaxmination of Ponlav ’3 clothes, noticed particles of coal dust, and concluded that the body had lain in a coal cellar; Inquiries elicited the information that Tessier always interviewed clients in a coal cellar. A search revealed bloodstains in the cellar where Poulay came to collect his winnings.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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133MURDER WILL OUT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 December 1924, Page 5
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