PASSING ON THE BLAME.
• - »•—- MURDER OP POLICEMAN. (BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, January 20. The youths Crossley and Heggarty, who were arrested on a charge of murdering Albert Wiliitts, a young police constable, in Wolverhampton, have been remanded.
The police gave evidence that Hcggarty made, a statement that Ccossley fired the shot. . Crossley denied that he had ever had a revolver, and blamed Heggarty. ' ' Both alleged that the other threw away something when running through the woods. The two accused, with a third boy, escaped from a probationary home on Saturday.
[The body of Albert WillitW, a young policeman, was found on his beat in tihe centre of Wolverhampton. Apparently} Willitts had - detected a man - peering into the window of a. nursing home, and arrested him. Then, it is surmised, someone crept up behind, in the darkness, and shot the constable.']
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18287, 22 January 1925, Page 10
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