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> In 1928 he conducted the funeral service of Sayaid Ali, an elephant keeper at London Zoo who had been murdered in his bed by a rival elephant keeper. The pol
by helsinkiandrew 2y ago
> In 1928 he conducted the funeral service of Sayaid Ali, an elephant keeper at London Zoo who had been murdered in his bed by a rival elephant keeper.
The police records aren't digitized (https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257682 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1257682), but the "Murder Mile Podcast" seems to have done a fairly complete episode on this case, transcript here: https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-uk-true-crime-podcast-172-the-sacred-one https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-uk-true-cri...