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NAPLES DAILY NEWS Thurt . DtC. 12, 1*74 31St. Jean Shot to Death In Apparent RobberyMIAMI BEACH (AP) - Nationally knowncriminal-dcfenselawyer Harvey St. Jean apparently was slain In busy downtown Miami Beach by a robber, says u police invesiigalcr.Si. Jean, 58, was found shot lo death Wednesday in his car behind a department store. His secrelnry said he had left Ivis office at about 10:40 a m. for an II a.m. apointnient he never made.St. Jean's .clients included Jack (Murph the Surf) Murphy, vvhn stole the Star of India sapphire from a New York museum; international jcwel-thief Georges LeMay and Candace Mossier, who was acquitted in the slaying of her banker husband.Police Maj. Waller Philhin said that although robbery appeared to he the motive, he was not ruling out other motives.Hut, Philbin said. It's leaning now toward a totally unrelated robbery-murder. Il could be a renegade siickup.”The only money found in the locked Cadillac was a garter, lying on the floor. The victim's pockets were turned inside out. Ilis wallet was missinR.MRS. WALKER . SPARKLESBLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP; — Mrs. Klelntjie Walker of nearby Bloem spruit has three diamonds set In her teeth lo lend a shine to her false dentures.The tH-year-old Mrs. Walker says she may be the only person in the world to have three diamonds set in her teeth for decoration.When the sparkle leaves you, she remarked, you must try to put il back in by some means or other.I knew Ihe man for 25 years,” said Philbin. You wouldn't catch him in Miami beach at 11 o'clock in the morning wilhcul any money.Attorney Walter Gwinn, a friend of St. Jean, said St. Jean often carried as much as St.OOC cash. • .The body was found by a me-ter-maid about to ticket the auto for overtime parking. Police said St. lean had been shot twice behind the left ear.Investigators believe St. Jean locked the car himself before dying. They said a bloody handprint, believed to be his, was found on the inside of the passenger door.St. Jean was born in Holyoke, Mass., and was a Miami Beach policeman in the 1940s before leaving to study law at the University of Miami. He began his legal career in 1951.
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Naples Daily News
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Thu, Dec 12, 1974
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