MAY BE TRIED IN FRANCE
SUSPECT IN ENGLISH MURDER CASE (Received 10 a.m.) PARIS. February 3. The Paris police have identified Charles Lacroix, who was arrested together with a woman a few days ago in corinection with the murder of an alleged white slave trafficker, Max Kassel, alias Emil Allard, whose body, following his fatal shooting in a London flat was dumped into a ditch in a field at St. Alban’s. Lacroix is said to be a Frenchman named Roger Marcel Vernon. Vernon was three times sentenced to imprisonment for theft and finally, in 1924, to seven years on Devil’s Island. He escaped from there in 1927.
The British authorities have asked for his extradition from France to England, but in view of his French citizenship he may be tried in France or returned to Devil’s Island.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1936, Page 5
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