KILLED FOR FORTY PENCE
CRIME BY FRENCH YOUTH.
The French police have solved the mystery of the death of an unknown Englishman, aged between 30 and 35, whoso body, with a bullet-wound through the heart, was found in one of the docks at Havre last November.
A youth of 18 named Maurice Stephan was arrested recently with three other men in connection with a sei'ies of robberies from churches in Normandy. The “third degree” system of in-, terrogation was applied, and he finally confessed that lie shot the Englishman shortlv after midnight after following him along the quayside. The murder of the Englishman w r as reconstituted, as is the custom in France, at the spot and hour when the crime was committed, and the prisoner showed how he killed his victim and threw tlie body into the water after having filled the jacket pockets with stones. Stephan declared that he found only the equivalent of about 3s 4d. in the Englishman's pockets.
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Shannon News, 31 July 1928, Page 4
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163KILLED FOR FORTY PENCE Shannon News, 31 July 1928, Page 4
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