SOHO MURDER
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Vernon Sentenced To Ten Years' Prison ACCOMPLICE ACQUJTTED
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(Beceived 30, 10.0 a.m.) PARIS, April 29. Roger Vernon, alias Charles Lacroix, was found guilty and was sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment, to be followed by twenty years' banishment, while Suzanne Bertron was acquitted. Vernon was charged with murdering Max Kassel, otherwise "Red Max," and Suzanno Bertron was charged as an aceomplice. The Public Prosecutor, referring to Vernon 's stay at Montreal at the same time as Max Kassel, said that when a man named Marty, with whom they were connected, was killed, the body was disposed of in the same manner as Kassel 's. "Kassel had hours of agony before his death in the presence of this murderer of incredible cruelty," said the Prosecutor, who finally conceded that the jury might consider that, in the evil character of the murdered man, they might find some mitigating circumstances. The sentence will be eerved on Devil's Island,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 5
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