ESSEX TRAGEDY.
Policeman Murder Suspects For Trial. LONELY ROAD DRAMA. (Received 0."0 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. The '"News of the World" states that two men will be charged on Monday with the murder of Constable Gutteridge, the Essex policeman.
The murder of Constable Gutteridge was perpetrated on a lonely road in Kssex j eai ly in the morning of September 27. i When the constable was discovered he I was clutching his pencil in one hand and his notebook was near his body. There were four bullet wounds in the head and neck. Two of these "had been tired from a distance, and the other two with the muzzle of the weapon pressed close against each of the dead man's eyes. The theory formed by the police was that Gutteridge had stopped a motor car, and was about to makes notes in his book when he was shot through the eyes. The murderer or murderers then apparently fired twice at their victim as be lay on the ground. As 110 clues were left, and no persons were in the vicinity till hours after the tragedy, Scotland Yard has had great difficulty in tracing the crime.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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195ESSEX TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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