ESSEX MURDER MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 8

ESSEX MURDER MYSTERY

TWO MEN CHARGED KENNEDY'S STARTLING DISCLOSURES Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 13. (Received February 14, at 12.45 p.m.) Kennedy and Browne were remanded. Tho prosecutor said that Brown was found in possession of medical forceps believed to have been stolen from Lovell’s motor car, and also bullets similar to that found in Gutferidge’s head. Furthermore, Kennedy, when arrested, made a statement that he did not murder Guttericlgc, hut was present, and knew who did, HISTORY OF MURDER. One of the most mysterious murders of recent years, tho victim of which was a popular county constable, took place at about 3.30 p.m. on September 27 of last year in a desolate spot near the old-world village of Stapleford Abbots, on tho main road from Romford to Ongar, in Essex. The constable was William George Gultcridgo, aged about forty years, who has been seventeen years in the police. Ho left a widow and two children—a girl of twelve and a boy of four. Bloodstains and the medical evidence indicated that after being shot the constable staggered or was carried across the road and placed under the hedge on the other side, where he was again shot twice—once through each eye. What tho detectives have been trying to discover is: Was Gutteridge murdered while ho was taking particulars from someone in a motor car? Did he then scramble to the other side of the road, and, knowing himself to be dying, did he try to write a message in his notebook for those who found him? Did his assailant see him doing this, and therefore return to complete his murderous work, so that no evidence should be left? Was it the deed of a maniac oi of thieves?