BULLET-RIDDLED BODY
OUTRAGE IN ENGLAND CHICAGO GANG MET RODS LONDON, Jan. 25. The discovery of the bullet-riddled body of a scar-faced elderly itinerant jeweller, a French-Canadian named E'mil Allard, under a hedge outside St. Albans, and subsequent investigations indicate that traditional Chicago gangster methods have at last, been adopted in England. The customary baffling features are present.
A village carpenter discovered the corpse early on the morning of January 24, noting that though' it" had rained all night, the clothing, including a but-toned-up overcoat, was completely dry. The police believo that the victim was "taken for a ride" from a West End night club, "put on the spot" in a motor car, and dumped on the roadside. No revolver has been found. It is believed that the victim, accompanied by a man and a woman, called at a roadhouse cafe in Millago, near London, at midnight on Thursday. Allard lived in a single room in St. James street, London. He came to England in 1955.
His only male friend saw him the night before the body was found. It is believed he had! £2OOO worth of jewellery in his possession. The motive of the crime is possibly robbery*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 7
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