PODMORE TO DIE
GUILTY OF SOUTHAMPTON GARAGE MURDER TENSE TRIAL ENDS LONDON, Saturday. The trial of William Podmore at Winchester Assizes on the charge of having murdered Vivian Messiter at Southampton ended in a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced to death. The body of Vivian Messiter was found inside a private garage at Southampton. The door was padlocked outside. Mr. Messiter had been missing 10 weeks The theory was that the murder was committed away from the garage and that the body was taken there subsequently. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that death occurred two months before the discovery. Deceased was last seen on October 30. 1925. Podmore was a witness at the inquest concerning the death of Messiter. His statement to the police suggested that he was the last man to see Messiter alive, and he was arrested by Scotland Yard officers as he was leaving Wandsworth Prison on December IS.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
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