BLACKALLER MURDER.
' » —— RHODES'S MENTALITY. (ST CABLE —PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPSBIGHT.) (AX7BTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 29. Ernest Rhodes has been, committed for trial for the murder of Grace Blackaller, whose throat he cut with a razor in West Kensington on April 10th. A former employer of Rhodes gave evidence that the boy was abnormal and was continually talking about Norman Thome, the Crowborough murderer, whom he regarded as a hero. Accused did not seem to realise tho gravity of his crime. On the following morning he was playing with a child and screaming with laughter. When witness advised him to surrendor himself he declared that he must get his hair out, otherwise Grace's mother would not like him. Defending counsel intimated that he was calling medical evidence to show that Rhodes did not know the nature or quality of his act.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18370, 1 May 1925, Page 10
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