LONDON TRAGEDY
DEATH OF HOUSEKEEPER FOUND WITH HEAD BATTERED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, June 30. Police and detectives throughout Britain are searching for Alan James Grierson, aged 28, following the death of Mrs Louise Bertha Gann, a housekeeper, in a flat in Regent’s Park, who was found with her head battered on June 22. Grierson is described as possessing the peculiarity of never lacking a fashion-ably-cut suit, enSbiing him to mix with better class people, even when financial embarrassment necessitated his working as a builder’s labourer and driving a lorry. He is the son of a Southampton solicitor, well educated, and spent several years in Australia. A quantity of jewellery is missing from Mrs Gann’s flat.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 9
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