TYPIST’S TRAGIC DEATH.
WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME’ A REMARKABLE CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Jan. 18, 7.30 p.m. London, Jan'. 17. Two men, Field and Gray, sentenced to death for the murder of a girl at Eastbourne in .August last, are making sensational efforts to escape with their lives in an appeal against the sentence by accusing each other of the crime. Field declares Gray confessed that he stunned the girl, -and, he understood, buried her alive. Gray denies Field’s story, alleging that Field admitted he himself killed the girl because she smacked his face-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
The girl in this case was a pretty London typist seventeen years old, and it was while she was spending her August holidays at Eastbourne that she was killed. One night, when she had gone for a- walk on the beach alone, her failure to return brought about a search, with the result that her body was found on the sands, the head having been battered in with a stone. Considerable mystery surrounded the crime for some time, until eventually Scotland Yard brought about the arrest of Field and Gray, who had been seen loitering on the beach on the {light of the crime.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1921, Page 5
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