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Name: FABICH, Alwin
Birth Date: 20.2.1872
Death Date: 16 July 1933 Embakasi, Nairobi, murdered
Nationality: Italian
First Date: 1910 (Feb)
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Contractor, store keeper
Area: Box 602, Nairobi
Book Reference: SE, Red 31, Land, Advertiser, Gazette, Barnes, Red Book 1912
General Information:
SE - A. Fabich - Feb 1910
Land 1909 - Alwin Fabich - Agricultural and residential, 12 acres - Near Nairobi - 5/10/09 - Under Occupation Licence from 3 to 99 years leasehold from 1/3/10 - Registered 28/5/10
Land - 1912 - Grazing and agricultural, 2940 acres - Londiani - 2/9/11 - Under Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/9/11 - Registered 30/1/12
Advertiser - 15/10/1909 - Fabich and Brown - partnership dissolved
Gazette - 2/8/16 - Trading with the Enemy
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Albino ? Fabisch, Italian, age 65, born 20 Feb 1872, died 17/7/33
Red Book 1912 - A. Fabich - Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - Advert - A. Fabich, Nairobi - Contractor to the Government, Established 1903, undertakes any kind of fencing from the smallest plot to the largest farm; Tennis courts laid out; For sale - fencing poles and fuel.
EAS 12 Apr 1933 The police have been unable to make any arrests in connection with the murder on July the 15th of Mr A Fabish, proprietor of the Embakazi store on the Machakos Road. On the morning of 15 July Mr Fabish was found in his living room at the rear of the store badly wounded. He said he had been attacked by two natives on the previous evening and he was taken to hospital where he died later. Fractures of the skull in several places were the primary cause of death and a considerable amount of blood was lost; there was extensive beating with heavy sticks. He said he had been attacked about 7:30 PM on 14 July. He received a blow on the head and there were two natives whom he did not recognize. I asked them not to kill me he told the police officer. His trade was chiefly with natives. The boy who did part time work for Fabish said the latter was all right on the Friday evening and when he came about 8:00 AM the next day he found his master's lamp on the ground outside the store, patches of blood and the deceased's set of false teeth. Fabish was on the bed dressed in his working clothes and wearing an overcoat. He told the boy that he had been in the store to take food to his dogs and on the way out he was attacked by two natives.