BULLET CLUES IN MURDER MYSTERIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3

BULLET CLUES IN MURDER MYSTERIES.

A bullet is not a specially valuable clue in a criminal ease, but that it is better than nothing has been abundantly proved upon several occasions, For instance, early in the spring of 183') armed burglars broke into the residence of the gentleman at Muswell Hill, Loudon, and, being disturbed, shot liini through the body.

There was no clue bill, the bullet. | Yet the police were able, by us aid, to iix the crime upon one Lyster, a notorious ruiiian, wiio, with two companions named Burdett and Clarke, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Contrary to all expectations, the injured gentleman recovered froiu his terrible wound, and now wears the bullet attached as a charm to his watch-chain. Even more remarkable was the case of the burglar Orroek, who shot and killed a policeman named Cole at Daltou on the night of December Ist, ISS2. The. fatal bullet was taken from the con stabled skull, and was found to be marked with a peculiar nick. It was, )t course, carefully .preserved. A year later its possession was Irae :d to the murderer. JUe was proved to iiwe fired an identical bullet from the ;aniie revolver, for practice, at a tree on Tottenham Marshes. The tree was cut lown, and there, embedded in its heart, vas found the tell-tale piece of lead. It ormed the last connecting link in one >f the most remarkable chains of cirunistantial evidence ever forged against i criminal, and Orrock was duly collected and hanged. Then, again, there was the famous ase of the three Nefcherbv Hall burglars, who were hanged together at 'arlisle, in February, 1880, mainly on he evidence supplied by a revolver bulL*t extracted from the body of a contable whom they bad murdered, which irecisely corresponded with a number of vail cartridges found ill the possession >f one of the gaiig.