SOHO MURDER CASE
AN ALLEGED CONFESSION CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED LONDON, June 3. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr Maurice Crump, told the Marlborough Street Police Court magistrate that Christopher James Geraghty, aged 20, a labourer stated that he fired the shot which killed the motor cyclist, Alex de Antiquis, who, on April 29, in Soho, tried to intercept three men escaping after an attempt to rob a jeweller’s shop. Geraghty, with Charles Henry Jenkins, aged 23, and Terence John Rolt, aged 17, was charged with the murder of Antiquis. They were also charged with attempting while armed to rob the jeweller’s shop. Mr Crump said the three men, wearing masks and carrying revolvers or pistols drove in a car to the jeweller’s shop and struck the manager down with a revolver butt. The manager’s resistance was successful, and the men rushed from the shop without stealing anything and jumped into a car. which a lorry blocked. The men then jumped out and ran off. Antiauis placed his motor cycle to block them, and was shot in the head at what must have been point-blank range. The hearing was adjourned until Friday.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 7
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