MURDER ON A RAILWAY.
A cable message dated London, June 28th says, a great shock has been caused by a shocking murder on the London and Brighton Railway line. The body of a man stabbed in several places has been found in a tunnel into which it had been thrown. A severe struggle appears to have taken place in the railway carriage between the murdered man and Ids assailant or assailants, as the carriage was saturated with blood, and several bullets were embedded in the woodwork. There is little doubt that robbery was the motive: of the murder, as all the valuables had been taken from the - body. The deceased appears to have been stabbed and afterwards shot. He was then, no donht, thrown ont of the window while the train was passing through the tunnel.”
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Patea Mail, 12 July 1881, Page 4
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