29th January 1936
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The bullet-riddled body of Emile Allard, an elderly itinerant
jewellery dealer, was discovered
under a hedge near St. Albans on 23rd
January 1936. The police believed he had been taken to the spot by car either
already dead or shot at the scene.
Police soon discovered that Allard, a French-Canadian also
known as Max Kassel, had French criminal connections and had been imprisoned
for 8 months in France for sex trafficking. They suspected the murderer or
murderers had fled to France possibly by plane.
Later in the year French police arrested and charged a man,
George Lecroix (aka Roger Vernon) and a woman, Susan Betrand (aka Susan Naylor)
with the murder and rather than extradite them to England, tried them in Paris.
He was found guilty and got 10 years.
Neither the murder of the prostitute Josephine (French Fifi)
Martin the previous November nor that of the French acrobat Martial Lechavelier
were ever solved.
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