CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK.
CLUE OF SIX SUGAR LUMPS. NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Deductions, reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and based on six sugar lumps found in the pocket of a Frenchwoman, Miss Irma Pradier, aged 27, who was shot in the head.on July 20, reached a climax in the arrest of Arthur Chalmers, aged 35, a mounted policeman, married, with two children, on a charge of murder. . Detectives discovered that Miss Pradier was a lover of horses and was friendly with a number, of troopers. They deduced from the sugar lumps that she had arranged to meet a trooper on the night she was murdered, and they questioned many troopers. Chalmers admitted he met Miss Pradier on July 20, but he denied having committed the murder.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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125CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 7
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