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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936

MAN'S FIGHT

FOR LIFE

Sir B. Spilsbury's Evidence

INQUEST IN HEDGE

MURDER MYSTERY

Evidence suggesting a despET- ate fight for life was given at the inquest at St. Albans last month on the man until then described as Emil Allard, aged 55. & French Canadian jeweller, of James-street, Oxford-street, W.

The man was found shot dead under a hedge in a labe between St. Alans and Hatfeld 'the week before."

A scene from "Strike Me Pink Eddie Cantor's latest picture, which will be coming to the King's Theäfre soon.

It was later revealed that his him. That was about six months DEFENCE MINISTRY IN

real name was Mar Hassel.

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, giving evidence, said:

ago.

Did he tell you where he got! bis jewellery from?--I understood that he bought it at sale rooms. Minor injuries, on face and

Was be well supplied with hands, might have been caused in money?-He never mentioned that a struggle.

he was short.

Two bullet wounds in one hand

suggested an attempt to protect the body.

Of the five bullets, causing six wounds, two were fired from the front, one from the back, and two from the right side.

The inquest was held at St. bans. Mr. T. Ottaway was

coroner.

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The witness added that Allard against disaster on this score. never tried to borrow from him. the face of sustained bombing at-

about £100 in a safe deposit. and once mentioned that he had tack against our ocean convoys all

King's ships and all

friends?-No, I saw him with one

Did he mention any other of his King's men, and the total weight of the feet, amount to nothing other man once, but I do

more than a floating anti-aircraft noti Al-know his name although I could armament of a hugely expensive the recognise him That was about kind, which could just as well be six months ago in Oxford-street, provided by the convoy itself.

Loose Phrase Allard had a car with him.

The equalisation of OUT OWD with any other. Air Force within Henry Sayer, a farmer, of Cell striking distance appears to be our

The first witness took the oath in Jewish fashion, and asked that į This name and address should not

Lying In Hedge

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be disclosed. He wrote them on Barnes-cottages, near St. Albans, last word on this subject. Yet it

a piece of paper.

Mr. Ottaway: Is there

special reason?

My mother is very, very ill,

said when he was walking along is a loose phrase and apt to be any Cell Bames-lane he 3275 Allard meaningless.

and

so far we have kept the news from her:

lying in the hedge and went for As an instance only. Paris Hes assistance.

at twice the distance from the Dr. Ronald E. Wilson, police cliffs of Dover that London lies surgeon, said he made a superfici- from the cliffs of Boulogne, and al examination of the body in the while this would not mean pre- ter, and identified the body at St. lane Rigor mortis was setting cisely a double power of offensive Albans Mortuary.

in. He took internal tempera- (by France as against England, parity presumed, it would bestow

Witness said he was a fur cut-

was

"I have since found." he can-tures. tinued. "that his real name

The coroner: Having regard to on the former country the advan- Max Kassel So far as I know, he the temperatures, can you say the tage of a much greater frequency was a single man. His father's probable time of death?—I

can-of attack.

dead."

"

the

name was Hyman Kassel. He is not, with any precision,If the These vital problems and

body had cooled evenly, at (the rate implications to which they give Witness added that he first saw of four degress every three hours, rice are propounded in this article Allard in the East End of London it would place the time of death for a very specific purpose. in 1913, when Allard went to his approximately at four am, but it

Af aircraft have entirely chang-i house. It was a friendly call. is impossible to say if the rate ofled the face of war (and who can Allard did not tell him then where cooling had been even throughout doubt it), then it stands to reason he had come from, how long he that time.

that we, so peculiarly and precari-

Came From Abroad

was going to be in this country. Pe. Leonard Shepherd, of Lon-ously situated, should readjust ourį where he was going, or what was don Colney, said when he went system of defence. The air is at- his business. He next saw Allard to the lane the body was lying on ready supreme as a weapon of war about two and a half years ago its back behind the hedge. It was and it continually gains strength. |in Oxford-street.

clothed in a dark overcoat and grey | At the very least there must salt. The man's collar and tiejo arise an authority to co- The Coroner: Did you ascertain were in the inside pocket of the rdinate our forces of the land. where he had come from?No. overcoat. The clothing and shoes sea and air, and to discriminate

Did he tell you what he was were quite dry.

between their rival claims. DET- {doing in this country?—He had Witness could find

wheel-ing the Great War the desirability been back only a few days, and marks or anything to show how was recognised: subsequently it

necessary; became do not think he told me then what the body came to be there.

now it i he was doing. I knew he came turf was hard owing to frost. essential.

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ịthrough the right kidney, and livet. was the most dangerous, and was was nearly always Sir Bernard Spilsbury said the mostly responsible for death The body was that of a thick-set, fourth, through the shoulder, was I don't want you to give his

coarse-featured

about 5ft also dangerous- name, but did you know the other Tin in height. There man? Not until I had been in-number of scars, several of them Sun., 22nd Mar troduced to him by Allard. operation scars on the head, face, fred. Sir Bernard said:

The last time he saw Allard was front and back of the neck, trunk) Thurs., 19th Marabout a fortnight before his death, and right elbow.

"Bullet wounde numbers said witness. Allard told him that

and two were produced by a wee- There were six bullet wounds, pon which was fired from the front he was a jeweller.

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What sort of jewellery was being around any of them. was fired from the back, and num-

There were also some slight in-ber four from the right side. seling?-He only once showed me juries a scratch on the head, a a woman's wrist-watch, and ask-mall superficial abrasion on the through the hand, the weapon was "In the case of '; number five, led me whether I could sell it for nose a small lacerated wound on discharged somewhere in front of the right jawbone, and small sb-the deceased, depending largely on rasions on the knuckle of the right his position at the time. It sug- hand. Two teeth were lose.

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