YOUNG WOMAN SHOT.
ARREST OF MOUNTED POLICEMAN. LUMPS OP SUGAR IN EVIDENCE. United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. \ (NEW YORK, August 7. Deductions reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, based on six lumps of sugar found in the pocket of a Frenchwoman, Miss Irma Pradier, aged 27, who was fatally shot on July 27, led to the arrest of Arthur Chalmers, 30, a mounted policeman with a wife and two children, on a charge of murder. Detectives discovered that Miss Pradier was a horse lover and friendly with a number of troopers. They deduced from the lumps of sugar that she had kept a tryst with a trooper on the night of the murder. They questioned many troopers, and Chalmers admitted that lie met Miss Pradier on July 20, but denied that he had murdered hov.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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133YOUNG WOMAN SHOT. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9
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