U.S. GUNMAN TO HANG.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 306, 26 December 1931, Page 5

U.S. GUNMAN TO HANG.

Bathing Cap Clue Brings Murderer’s End.

(Special to the “ Star.") LONDON, December 10. Edward Cullens, aged thirty-one, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Ahmed Musa, said to be the great-great-great-grandson of Xaro Agha, the eldest man in the world. The execution has been fixed for December 29. Cullens, who is §n American, was arrested in September, following the identification of the body of a Turk, found in a field near Oarrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, as that of Ahmed Musa. The latter had been variously described as the relative of, and the doctor attending on, Zaro Agha. He had been shot twice through the head. The police alleged that Cullens and Musa were members of a syndicate to exploit Zaro Agha, and that Cullens had proposed the tour of Ireland. Musa had £IOO. Two girls whom they met in Ireland saw in . Cullen’s possession a bathing cap, which later covered Musa’s head wounds. Musa had £IOO with him. When arrested, Cullens had a revolver case to carry a weapon of the same calibre as that with which Musa was shot. At the time of the murder the police believed the crime was a link with the murder of Robert Donald, aged twentyseven, a bank clerk, who was shot and bludgeoned at Glasgow on August 12, when he tried to stop robbers escaping with £2OOO.