Edward Joseph Fay, a.w°rld notorious "crook" and bank robD ? r ; , l t u "Eddie Fay," «as found shot to death in an alley in Chicago on Noyember 5t . Theve was a bullet wound m his head just below the right ear. Tl J® P° h °? J>f; lieve he was slain by a member of his own pans following an argument over the division of loot. Fay s career of crime extends ali over America and parts of Europe. Bo became internationally kuowii 15 years ago, when lie was arrested in 1-aris with , p Guerin, also of Chicago, for robbery of a Paris bank. They were sentenced Dovil's Isiand, a French prison Burrounded by cliffs, and Fay .later escaped. He was the first cnm.nal to make a successful break for freedom from that prison. The American police estimate that Fay had stolen more than; £400,000 from banks throughout tha country.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 12
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149Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 12
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