DEADLY GAS GUN

Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 12

DEADLY GAS GUN

LIKE FOUNTAIN PEN TRAFFICKER IN ENGLAND. A 1 startling fatality in a London hotel recently revealed the presence in England of a man who supplies American gangsters with a deadly gas gun. A worker in a London hotel found an object that looked like a fountain pen. ■ While, examining it,.he .unknowingly pressed a concealed spring and received a charge of mustard gas full in Ms face. The “ gun ” was immediately confiscated and taken to Scotland Yard. The worker died. This set the London police looking for the guest who left the gun behind him. He is known in America as the “ Mkn with the Gas Gun.” He has never been inside -a prison, and his name is not oh the police records of any country. But Scotland Yard would very much like to interview him. They would like to know just what his business is and how h© got into the country. “ The Man with the Gas Gun ” travels under Many aliases. His work in America has been providing gangsters with illegal arms. His principal trade was in the gas gun, hence his nickname. Then he got in touch with ♦he Irish-American society that financed the recently-disbanded Irish Republican Army in Ireland. In order to see how the situation was in Ireland, he managed to smuggle himself into the country. The gas gun is found m various forms. It is usually disguised as a pen or pencil or bicycle pump.