Important Search For ChildStrangler
LOXDUN, Poi). 13. Sfojhuid Yard lius issuod anst ructioiis tha1 .fohn Edwunl Allen, a convirtvtl cdiild-st raiiglei" wlio eseaped fmni Broad moor (Timimi! Lnnatic Aslyuin scven lnonllis ago, nui.st be recaptured " at all T!i' polico learned that Allen. who has lioon seen several tiines sinee his escape, was observed in the Fleet Ktreet nighbourhood only a few days ago. At the same tinie tlle police are in tensifying the search for the munlerer of li ve-year-old Eileen Loekhart, who was fonnd st rangled in the basenient of a desoried house in Finsbury on the night of Febniary l. I'ull do.scriplions of Allen have been ein-nlated and the public has -been asked to assist. Allen is an adept at disgni'se, and when »he eseaped froni Broadnioor he did so dressed a.s a elergynian, after xtealing clothes from: the properties of the asvliun theatrical eoinpanv. The ])o!iee liave been close fin his traeks several tiines sinee his esrape, but eaeh timo he has elnded ' liein. Allen was senteneed to death in 10.17 r strangling a 17-vear-old ehild near Oxford, but was laler reprieved and sent to Broadnioor.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1948, Page 5
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