ESSEX MURDER.
POLICE BAFFLED.
Wide Appeal For Public ' Aid. MOTOR BANDIT DANGER. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrights (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. Despite Scotland Yard's' utmost concentration, the Essex murder seems to have reached a dead end.
The series of clues at first obtained have proved unprofitable.
The brutal nature of .the crime has aroused public horror, as well as uneasiness, but the perpetrators may go undetected.
Two men were taken to Scotland Yard to-night and were interrogated but the police are appealing throughout the country to the public to aid them. The newspapers point out that the degree of skill reached by motor car bandits require* the reorganisation of the police force with the most modern resources.
The criminologist, Mr. Edgar Wallace, in the "Morning Post," sums up the crime by stating that the cartridges and revolver found at Hammersmith are not Connected with the crime. The police, lie says,, are on a cold scent and it mav be. a long time before the criminals are caught.
The Government, he urges, should offer a large reward with a pardon for any member of the gang not actually concerned in the. shooting. . *:
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 7
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