May 1, 1938 Page Three THE STRANGLER OF "Even today can do little about it. In free mere mention of Four Women Are the Victims in England police cannot purge the strangler is alien districts as German police enough to send a do in Berlin. Nowhere else, shudder through Soho." London's Great Murder Mystery probably, do police face such stubborn silence on crime. town. In brief, Soho is the and taciturn, he is the police- pockets, sneak thieves, and oth- The silence was not only stub- hoodlum of London metropoll- man's policeman, representing ers. Drink was one way to ror- b 0 r n but oppressive in the tan districts. the plodding type that prefers get the past, and especially her strangling of Paulette. It was Modern Soho is roughly established rule-of-thumb rneth- lover, Armand, who had been the same brand of silence that bounded by , Char- ods to the fiuffy folderol of sci- deported. has beaten Scotland Yard's best ing Cross road, Leicester square, entific crime detection. One day last August Paulette brains again and again. It re- and Warwick street, but its Five years before Yandell had was drinking in the Adam and sembled the kind imposed by solved the sensational torch mur- Eve pub. A slick-haired, sallow- Soho's vice ring, directed by a der of Walter Spatchett by ar- faced young man with a mousey mysterious leader in Compton resting Samuel Furnace. The mustache sidled up and smiled. street. latter committed suicide before In a moment Paulette had found Soho doesn't like men and trial, but not before confessing a new friend. The two left the women who talk. It calls them the murder. pub together, laughing and talk- coppers' narks, or stool pigeons. Yandell saw that the newest ing, and carrying bottles of Now and then, of course, some strangler crime offered a tough liquor under their arms. Neigh· daring man or woman will risk problem. In the first place, few bors saw them enter Paulette's talking to police. And now and people knew the henna -haired flat together. None saw him then some man or woman is victim; .none intimately. They leave. Paulette never left alive. found mysteriously slain. Soho thought she was a Frenchwom- Scotland Yard began an In- has its own direct way of deal- an, but her finger prints identi- tense search for the slick-hatred ing with squealers. fied her as Elsie MacMahon, stranger, certain he was the Police admit the Strangler of also known as French Marie, strangler, but neither could they Soho who killed Paulette may Paulette Artrez, Paulette Estelle, find him nor learn much about have been an agent of the Soho Paulette Suzette Lazus, and Lot- him. Soho doesn't talk to the vice ring, assigned by the ring's tie Asterly, who some years be- police about crimes within its overlord to enforce the code of fore had been arrested for a borders, and not at all about silence. minor crime. murders that may have under- For Paulette, the ex - artist's • • • ground motives. Scotland Yard model, had been a coppers' nark. Paulette, as police called her from t his preponderance of Vice District's aliases, was born in Croydon, England, and taken at an early age to Boulogne, France. There Silence His she learned the French Ian- guage. With this she accented her native English. Shield These experts didn't require Italians in large numbers, then shadows radiate generously in As a young woman Paulette much time to establish the fact Germans and Jews, and latterly all directions, so that street found that she could profitably By . DAVID DARRAH that the dread Strangler of Greeks. boundaries are theoretical rath- exploit this Gallic touch, as she Soho was at work again. In its full bloom Soho attract- er than physical confines. also exploited a head of bushy London, England. ed brilliant men along with ref- Life teems here. It may be red hair. The accent, red hair, EEKMrs. Annie Connell, • • • ugees and charlatans. Edmund drab beneath, but it is gaudily and a pretty face and shapely sitting in her small Bath That was last August, but Burke, the great parllarnentarl- gay on the surface. figure enabled Paul- MRow fiat off Euston road even today mere mention of the an, lived in Gerrard street; so Cheap cafes stud the ette to venture into in the shadows of the somber Strangler of Soho is enough to did John Dryden, poet and critic. area. Everywhere are exciting fields. She Soho district of London, glanced send a shuddery feeling through Mozart as a boy lived in Frith seamy coffee s hop s be cam e an artist's at the dresser clock and uttered the district. The name Soho street. Even royalty of a sort where, it is said, tiny model first, and no a startled cry: II My, my, I'll be itself has a sinister ring. It is called Soho home. It was in packets of opium and doubt there are in late for work!" She gulped an Intrlgulng name, probably Soho where King Theodore of hyoscine change hands various obscure gal- down the last. of her cup of tea. originating several centuries ago Corsica - the former Stephen at exorbitant prices. leries canvases por- Almost 6 p. m., and she'd have One may tumble into traying the 10 vel y to hurry. a drinking cellar any- Tlttan-halred girl that She slid a serviceable sleeve where. The 11 p. m. l was Paulette. across her lips, yanked an old closing hours are elas- Superintendent In time she veered blue hat over her older gray tically interpreted for George Yandell i n t 0 other pursuits. head, and hurried from her them. Good times and dissl- room; down the stairs, and into , once called Grig, pation eventually worked their the street. Once outside, she is always alive with activity. usual pen a I t y. Before she stopped abruptly, then sniffed So are Compton street and reached her thirties she had lost suspiciously. liS m 0 k e," she , once called Thrift. her looks and charm. Soon she said. Mrs. Connell looked up. On historic Little Newport street was living in Soho. Immediately she began scream- some years ago Roger Vernon, She worked whenever she ing, II Fire, fire!" A thin stream- escapee from Devil's Island, shot could find work, and she spent er of smoke was fioating from a Max (Red) Kassel, vice boss. many of her pennies for candy small third - floor window next Kassel recovered and lived until for the neighborhood children. (Photo from Tribune London Bureau.) door, above a radio store. . . February, 1936, when he was At other times she drifted into Th. house in Bath Row. Eu.ton road. where Paulett. was found dead. Although Mrs. Connell was slain in a shooting described by the pubs, where she met pick- The arrow indicates the window of her room. justifiably excited' over her a horrified London pre s s as

alarming discovery, she was dis- II England's first one-way gang- tinctly conscious at the time-- land ride." and she remembered it more Into this curious welter of distinctly later on - of radio peoples, streets, buildings, and music. It was loud. It. struck night clubs, with its vice, gam- Now Dull, Dry Hair her as being. quite strange, for bling, counterfeiting, dope, and she could tell that the music was all their concomitant evils, come . playing in the very room that the fallen from everywhere, and was sending out the smoke. sometimes the more respectable Takes On Thrilling Beauty Firemen don't race to fires in Roger Vernon. self-confessed vice lord of London's Soho district. speaks from fast-living West End, where London as they do in Chicago or from the dock to his counsel after receiving a ten'year sentence in the cultured Mayfair and Kensmg- -After This New Kind of Drene Shampoo other American cities, but they shooting of Max (Red) Kassel in Soho. His mistress. Suzanne Bertron. ton find their fun. reached the Bath Row building beside him. waa acquitted. Vernon was tried in Paris because French It is a long road from the in time to prevent a possibly law did not permit his extradition. (Acme photo.) more refined West End to Soho, bad blaze. Once they arrived, but the usual one for such as the Leaveshair so man- however, they discovered that in the old fox hunters' calls for Theodore, Bar 0 n Neuhof of henna-haired woman in green ageable it seta beau- II Prussta-c-sought sanctuary after the fire was relatively unlmpor- the hounds, So-he, so-hol " who was .found on her cot in a tifully right after tanto In those days the district was he was driven from his island burning room last August. washing • • • • and For they found, lying quietly known as St. Giles Fields, and kingdom in the middle eight- abounds with daz- on a cot in the smoldering room, Shaftesbury avenue, now the eenth century. A tablet to his • • • zling highlights. a henna-haired woman dressed area's main thoroughfare, was memory was erected in St. rather gaudily in green. Her a country lane traversed by Anne's churchyard, 'where also The woman was dead, as the face was deathly pale except huntsmen. There is another was buried William Hazlitt, Scotland Yard mobile laboratory for dabs of rouge on her lips explanation - t hat the name noted literary critic and essayist. squad had discovered. She had and cheeks. evolved from the rallying cry It was in Soho, too, that Sir been strangled. The woman was dead - the or watchword at the battle of Samuel Johnson, English writer The Strangler of Soho was flrernen saw that at a glance. Sedgemoor more than 250 years and lexicographer, and Sir promptly blamed. And the radio, a few feet away, ago. Joshua R e y n old s, renowned The news of the crime speed- was blaring. A woman dead,' a Originally. the Soho district painter, founded the Literary ily found its way into metropol- radio screaming, and a room in was a city apart, continental in club, first known simply as II the itan papers, perturbing London smoke--these meant a job for aspect and spirit and largely Club," which was to attract generally and Scotland Yard Scotland Yard. Soon a mobile settled by Frenchmen who had many immortals of the pen, In- particularly-and with reason. laboratory arrived, manned by fied their native land atter the eluding Gibbon, historian of the For here was the fourth worn- finger print examiners, photog- revocation of the edict of Nantes Roman empire. In keeping with an to die at the hands of a sinis- raphers, and chemists. in 1685. They were followed by famous figures and names, Soho ter strangler in or near the Soho also boasted pretentious homes district in less than two years. and other grand buildings. Worse yet, not one of the three Soho's golden grandeur no other strangler murders had longer exists. Tablets mark this been solved. . spot and that of former glory. The previous victims were a find a milder. safer. more beautifying shampoo. And remember. healthy hair Sometimes a c han c e glance woman known as II French Fifi," J LLIONS of women.whose hair has demands a safe shampoo. through the open door of a drab strangled with a silk stocking M always been left dull. dry-looking. Drene leaves every hair shaft so free hard-to-manage after an ordinary sham- of dirt and film that permanents turn tenement reveals fretted ceil- in Archer street in November, IJlto'omlcr.,raplt .t I.'f .how. dun, unrln •.• poo. are getting the beauty thrill of their •bl. film .eft on halr.lt.rordin.ry ehampoo. out softer. more lustrous. more beautiful • lives. 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