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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, ..1936.

HOW

"RED MAX" DIED

LURED TO FLAT BY

FORGED LETTER

Shot Man's Attempt to Fight

Way Out of Room

BODY SMUGGLED AWAY. IN BLANKET

-Car Driver's Story

THE HIT ME SO

1 KILL HIM"

The coroner then enlled Mr. Pierre Alexandre, 0 prosperous-looking, clean-shaven man, of Princes Street, Hanover Square.

Alexandru lold the coroner that he was French citizen and partner in

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England

n Soho Square garage. Mrs. Naylor FIDELITY RECEPTION & PUSH-PULL, OUTPUT

was his tenant ut Little Newport Street.

Soon after 11 p.m. on January 13 the telepfione bell rong and he spoke to Lacroix, who asked him to come over.

The Coroner: What time did you get there?-Shortly after 11 o'clock. He took me to the sitting-room and sald:

"How are you; have a drink?" He poured out some whisky and gave me a drink. Then he said, "I am in trouble. Red Max owed me £350, and he came and insplied my girl and hit me, so I kill him." Did he ask you if you could help him? Yes, he said: "You are the

"MAX THE RED," lured to his death in a Soho flat by a forged letter...his bullet-riddled body, wrapped in a brown blanket, smuggled away by car in the early hours...found hidden under a only man who can help me: you have hedge near St. Albans...

Thin was the dramatic story, revealed recently, when after an interval of six months, the Inquest was resumed at St. Albans on Max Kassel (66), otherwise Emil Allard, a French-Canadian, of James Street, Oxford Street.

got to help me." I said, "All right." Did you say anything to him that someone must have heard a noise?-- Yes. He said "Nobody could hear any noise."

Did you ask where Red Max was? asked him "Where in het and

A verdiet that Allard was murdered by Georgia Lacroix and that | he sald "In the bathroom down- Suzanne Naylor was an accessory after the fact was returned,

In the namCA of Vernon

The Coroner: Did he use the phrase and Bertrand they are already await-"Ile is finished. He is dead?" ting trial in France.

not recollect the phrase, but he said, "Yic has gone," or "Ile is dead,"

Did he say, "He wanted to fight and If he had got me first I would have been dead"Yes.

WOMAN TELLS

to "Red

Mux's":

OF SHOOTING

Events lending death and after were vividly describe ed by Mike. Marcelle Aubin, of Newn- ham Terrace, Lambeth, a servant at Little Newport Street (where shooting occurred) employed by Mrs. Naylor.

the

Lacroix, she said, told her that he hnd lent £25 to Max.

Mite. Aubin said that at Lacroix's request she phoned a garage twice for Mr. Alexandre. The second time she bundled the receiver to Lacroix.

The Coroner: Did you hear Lacroix Come ask: "Is that you, Pierre? round at once. It is very important. Come with the car"-Yes.

At 1.30 am, a car arrived and she

upstairs.

On January 22 last Lacroix dle-heard men talking and someone went tated a letter to Max which pur- ported to be from Mrs. Naylor ank- Ing him to come to the Wal.

Next evening Max arrived about

0.45.

The Coroner: Shortly afterwards did you hear any sound?-Yes, the saund of somebody stamping about

overhead in the sitting room.

HEARD SEVERAL

SHOTS

Were there words of anger?--Yes, the sound of quarrelling.

Mlle. Aubin said she then heard in two shots followed by several quick succession.

Lacroix called "Marcelle!

Mar- celle!" and when she went upstairs with Mrs. Naylor they found Max trying

to fight bis' way out of the room.

Allard said, "Oh, mudemoiselle, he has slot me," and then smushed two panes of the window, but was pulled

away.

They went downstairs and Allard tried to open the front door. Lacroix pushed him into the bathroom and he

was given water.

"YOU WON'T HEAR HIM ANY MORE"

A little later the car was driven away an

and Lacroix came in and said: "It is all right, Pierre is going round

the fat and then he will petrol up and get some ell and will come back.

About 4 a.m. someone was let into the flat and she heard a noise as though something heavy had been put down outside the bathroom door. Then she heard a car drive away.

TOLD TO CLEAN

UP BATHROOM

At 7.30 Lacroix left, asking her ond Mrs. Naylor to clean up the blood from the bathroom. Naylor burned a trilby hat they found there.

stairs,"

Dld you go down to the bathroom? Just before I left he took me to the bathroom. I had a ginnce through the

opening of the door, and I saw Max lying on the floor.

Alexandre said he went back at four o'clock and Lacroix let him in. He

went to the bathroom with aerolx. Max was stilt on the floor wrapped in a brown blanket."

Did you and Lacroix carry him downstairs and get him into the car? -Yes, sir.

Alexandre said that Lacroix got inte the car and he (Alexandre) drove

off. The Coroner: Hnd you arranged beforehand where to 07-I asked Lnerolx "South. north, rist, west?" and he where to go, and I said.

I went

said. "Anywhere you ke," north.

Do you know where you went?--I don't know exnetly, but I knew I was near St. Albans.

BODY PUT BEHIND

HEDGE

Which way out of London did you come? St. John's Wood.

"Did you pull up in s lane?—Yes. He told me to step near a gap in the hedgerow, What did

took you do?-Wo Lacroix took the blanket away. Max and put him by the side, and

Was

You nut him on the other side of the hedge?--Yes; through the gap. Did you notice how Max dressed?He had the blanket on. DROVE LACROIX

Mile, Aubin added that she found five empty cartridge cases in the nitting-room. Next day anoller was found after orders to search for it by Lacroix. On Mrs. Nay- lor's Instructions It was thrown luto a drain by Wyndham's Theatre. The window broken was cleaned and throw he was, I think, fully dressed,

glass which was

Had he got a hat?-No: otherwise a dust-bin. There was blood on curtains of the window where the glass had been broken, and

Mrs. Naylor eut a piece off the curtain

and burnt it.

into

BACK TO LONDON

Did you drive back to London? I did; with Lacroix.

Where did you drop Lacroix?--In Gerrard Place,

Lacroix showed her some papers No; I went back home, arrlying about Then did you sto to your garage?-- which he said he had got from Allard's pocket, and were safe re- ceipts.

He

At this point Mademoiselle Aubin broke down and was "given-a-chair.-

He said, "He cannot pay me. He Max was groaning and she left, the has not got a private safe for nothing, bathroom for a time. When she re- must have some money or valu- turned he was leaning over

the abing window; Lacroix pulled him back.

She asked if she could go home as she did not feel well. Lacroix told her not to go, Max was then kneeling. down at the bath with his hend hang- ing over it and his hand inside,

Later Lacroix said, "He has gone You won't hear him any more."

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Did you say anything to Lacroix about Max's papers, "le must have some papers on him"?Yes, I did: and he said: "I burn them."

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Did he say whether Max bad, any Lacroix also told her: "You don't money on him?-He did not mention know anything. Keep your mouth Did he say anything about als shut or you know what to expect." ring and quit links? He did not The Coroner: Had Lacroix at any mention it. time ever showed you a pistol?--Yes. It was on the Tuesday before the murder. I was in the kitchen. It was an automatic pistol.

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