RED MAX SHOOTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19365, 1 July 1937, Page 13

RED MAX SHOOTING

SOLVING THE RIDDLE PIECE OF GLASS CLUE LONDON, April 29. The tinkling of a fragment of glass as it fell on to the pavement of Little Newport street in Soho, on a night in January, 193 G, was the clue which solved the riddle of the shooting of Red Max Kassel. Detective Inspector Sharpe told the story in the Paris Assize Court yesterday, when 36-year-old Roger Vernon was accused of murder, and his exmistress, Suzanne Bertron, was accused of aiding and abetting. Behind that story is a little old woman, her home in Soho, who saw the glass ball. Last night she told her story. “I heard three reports—not rapid, but slow, spaced out. Glass fell from a third storey window above. A local tradesman swept the pieces into the gutter beneath the feet of the crowds going home at the time. “Seven days afterwards I react about the Red Max murder —recollected the sounds I heard and told the police. After they had questioned me they went to the flat and the mystery was solved.”