SENTENCED TO DEATH
GIRL-MURDERER WILL DIE ON GALLOWS STABBED EDITH PARKER United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. According to the police, Albert Marjaram, aged 23, who is charged with murdering Edith Parker by stabbing her at Dartford Heath, was cool and indifferent when he was arrested. He had. previously given himself up for the Reading murder, but admitted that his self-accusation that he had attacked his mother, attempted §uic-ide and tried to strangle his brother was a pack of lies. Medical evidence did not disclose a tendency toward insanity, though this was the basis of the evidence. A verdict of guilty was returned and the prisoner was sentenced to death.
Edith Parker was walking over Hartford Heath with her sister when she was attacked from behind by a man, who stabbed herein the back. No motive for the attack could be discovered. The assault was so sudden that the sister was unable to prevent it or to secure help before the murderer escaped. Marjaram was subsequently arrested. The Reading murder referred to occurred in June last year, when Alfred Oliver was attacked in his shop and died on the following evening. His assailant had taken notes from the till, but left the silver behind.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 11
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