CONSTABLE'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19220, 28 January 1928, Page 15

CONSTABLE'S DEATH.

»— MURDER CHARGE MAY BE PREFERRED. (BT CABLB— PBBSS ASSOCIATION— COPTBIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAK AND N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 27th, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. It is expected that a murder charge in connexion with the death of Constable Gutteridge will be preferred dturing the week-end as a result of the recent discoveries and enquiries. [line police at Liverpool have detained a man and woman in connexion with the theft of a doctor's motor-car. In September, 1927, Police Constable Gutteridge was brutally murdered on a lonely Essex road. Later the police found a blood-stained motor-car which haci been stolen from an Essex doctor on the night of the murder, presumably by the murderers.] LIVERPOOL ARREST. LONDON, January 26. 'The man arrested at Liverpool on a charge of stealing a motor-car is Willima Kennedy, aged forty. The Liverpool Police Chief says that Kennedy and a woman left a house at midnight and walked for a few yards. When spoken to by a detective,, who immediately took hold of the man, a struggle ensued. The man pointed a revolver at the detective. Following the struggle, the revolver was wrenched from his grasp. Twenty armed police in motor-cars surrounded tho house.

Kennedy has not been charged, but will be tried in London. The woman was released.