POLICE DETAIN MAN

Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 5

POLICE DETAIN MAN

Press 4§sn.

Jewel Robbery and Shooting May Be Solved

By Telegraph

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Received Saturday, ID40 a.m." 'LONDON, May 16. Tlie police have d'etained a man fchey warited to ' intervi^w iri conne.ction with the killijig of ' Alexander de 'Aritiqiiis, at Soho. Doris'Hart, 1 whose photograph , was "widely published today as the woma'ii belieVe'd td be acconipanyY ing the man the police wanted to interview, walked into a Yorkshire police station this* mornirig. She said she saw the photographs in the' newspapers and went to the police of 'her owii accord and jnade a sta'tement*. She said she was sufprised to find the police wanted to interYiew her. Followihg; the detention of a manj and with the "very valuable,7 information given' by' Doris Hart, thg' pbl'ice jDeHjgy.4* th'(ey s^ojrtly find *the other tvvo' men wanted in connectipn with' the armed raid on the Soho 'jewellery qp Apjril 20. Dopijs Hgrt m,ade a fqll statemepjt about her. moyemen|is 'and the p.o)icb have other impoi:tapt' p.e^y nformation. 1 . / ' A retired policeman recpgnise.d the man detaiped tpday from* th.e descriptiQp S'cott.and Y.ard cirp.ulatp.d. John Mprpis, ' fQrmerly a Metrppolitan pplice sergeant, was drivipg ajong ptumstead 'Cpmrhoji R'oad when he saw " the man. He stopped and engaged him iri conversatfori u'ntil' a ' tiniformed "policeman came alpng on a bicycle. They peVsuaded tlie man to' cojne to the oblice' btation, where he was d'etained pending an idfeptffi'cation oaradp tomorrow. The police b.elieve they are near the end of one of "th'e most intenMve irivestigatiohs ev'er carried out Th.e .officers in charge of the case have been working seventeen days with very brief 'brcaks for food jani.d 1 sleep. • .