KILLED FOR FORTY PENCE.
CRIME BY FRENCH YOUTH. TJie French police have solved the mystery of the death of an unknown Englishman, aged between 30 and 35, whose body, with a bullet-wound through the heart, was found in one of the docks at Havre last November. A youth of 18 named Maurice Stephan was arrested recently with three other men in connection with a series of robberies from churches in Normandy. The “ third degree ” system of interrogation was applied, and he finally confessed that he shot the Englishman shortly after midnight after following him along the quayside. The murder of the Englishman was reconstituted, as is the custom in France, at the spot and hour when the crime was committed, and the prisoner showed how he killed his victim and threw the body into the water after having filled the jacket pocket with stones. Stephan declared that he found only the equivalent of about 3s 4d in the Englishman’s pockets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20448, 30 June 1928, Page 15
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