Deluded Man

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 162, 29 September 1927, Page 11

Deluded Man

CONFESSES TO MURDER Scotland Yard on Trail By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright. Received 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. T H *' Police are inclined to the view that the man who gave himself up for the murder of Constable Gutteridge is sunering from a hallucination, and had nothing to do with the crime.

T HE maE save his name as Andrew ha Ba.iawing. It was alleged that l ’ ta ed , h< ? was riding a bicycle ped*him a hght when Gatteridge stopi. an argument, I let him have it, said Baldwing. He calmly surrendered himself in the Basingstoke market square, but became violent at the police station. Continuing their investigations, the police found a blood-stained motor-car abandoned at Brixton. Two spent bullets of the same size as those which killed Gutteridge were found embedded in the footmat. SCOTLAND YARD ON TRACKQuick developments have brought Scotland Yard within measurable distance of arresting the murderers. The motor-car found at Brixton was stolen from an Essex doctor on the night

of the murder, and that it was used by the desperadoes is conclusively proved by the fact that a spent revolver cartridge fitting the bullets fired at Gutteridge was lying inside. A series of fingerprints on the windscreen is of supreme value. A waterside worker also found a heavy service revolver on the Thames foreshore at Hammersmith Bridge when the tide receded. Obviously, it bad been in the water only a few hours. The cartridges were similar in make and calibre to that found in the doctor’s car.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. A cablegram received yesterday reads as follows:^—The brutal murder of a policeman named Gutteridge, on a lonely road in Essex, was discovered early this morning. There were four bullet wounds in the head and neck. Two of these had been fired from a distance and the other two with the muzzle of the weapon pressed close against each eye.