CRIME IN ENGLAND
THREE MURDERS IN TEN DAYS ONLY ONE Aft REST, CONDON, February 20. The resources of Scotland Yard have been fully taxed by three baffling murders within ten days. Following night and day inf(»iirics an arrest has been made in connection with the Durham hank murder, and Norman Elliott was formally charged and remanded. A post mortem revealed that the blow was deliberately aimed to cause death by a person with anatomical knowledge, No sooner had they made progress with this case when they were confronted with a strange crime at Budc, Cornwall, where Richard Roadie,v, aged eighty-four, a wealthy recluse, with a reputation for generosity for the needy, was battered to death in Tiis home. The room was ransacked, hut a wallet containing £8 was lying on a chair. The Webb mvslery is still unsolved.
■ [Returning with his son to his Bayswatcr tint, Alfred Webb found a burglar ransacking a, room, A struggle followed, in which Webb was shot in the bead, suffering a serious wound, from which bo died. The son and a crowd pursued the burglar, who threw away I lie revolver and escaped.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 8
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189CRIME IN ENGLAND Evening Star, Issue 19797, 22 February 1928, Page 8
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