ST. ALBANS SUSPECT IDENTIFIED.
DEVIL'S ISLAND ESCAPEE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyright) I'AKIS, February :i. The polite have identified Charles Lacroix, who, with a woman, has been detained in connection with the shooting of" Max Kasse), as a French •citizen, Roper Marcel Vernon, who was three times sentenced for theft. The last time was in 1924, when h 0 was sentenced to seven years on Devil's Island. He escaped from the island in 1927. British authorities have asked for his extradition, but in view of his French citizenship he may be tried in France or returned to Devil's Island. KasseFs bullet-riddled body was found under a hedge outside St. Albans, England, on January 24. It was subsequently alleged that he had been tin- of an international gang of white slave traffickers, and that his (death was the climax to a vendetta or .gang feud.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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