Age: 87
Sex: male
Date: 2 Oct 1959
Place: 32 Wolverhampron Street, Dudley, Worcestershire
Louis Cassell was beaten to death in his office at 32 Wolverhampton Street, Dudley on Friday 2 October 1959.
He was a Jewish money lender and was described as 'The Grand Old Man of Birmingham Jewry'. He was also known as 'Old Louis'. He had lived in Flat 6, Cropthorne Court, Calthorpe Road in Edgbaston.
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see National Archives - ASSI 6/214
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 17 November 1959 (includes photograph of man tried for murder)
see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 03 October 1959
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 02 February 1960
see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Tuesday 02 February 1960
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 27 January 1960
see Daily Mirror - Tuesday 02 February 1960
see Unsolved 1959