MURDER "CONFESSED."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 7

MURDER "CONFESSED."

Failure To Trace Supposed Victim. ACCUSED DISCHARGED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, September 24. A case said to be without parallel in English law came before the magistrate in the Bow Street Police Court, when Albert Lord, aged 29, was accused of murdering an unknown woman and throwing her over Waterloo Bridge into the River Thames. Accused was discharged. Lord surrendered to the police. He said he met a woman named Rose and they walked on to Waterloo Bridge. Here they quarrelled, and Lord said he threw the woman over the parapet into the Thames. No body was found and no one named Rose is missing. The Public Prosecutor recalled case 3 in which convictions for murder had been recorded, although the body of the person murdered had not been recovered. In one such case the captain of a ship was thrown overboard by a sailor and the body disappeared in the sea, but the sailor was convicted because he had been seen struggling with the master. The Public Prosecutor said that if the magistrate did not commit Lord for trial the latter could be rearrested in the event of the body being recovered.