WEBB MURDER.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 9

WEBB MURDER.

ACCUSED IN COURT. CIMJC— FBIS3 ASSOCIATION —COPT RIGHT.) '.UVttSUUH AKD X.7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, March 2. At the second reappearance at of Frederick Stewart, who u charged with the murder of Alfred Jitbb, the prosecutor read an alleged •Utement signed by Stewart to the efftttthat he first knocked at an adjoinflat, and, finding the occupiers at l0 ® e , next broke into Webb's. ■Ho was searching when he heard a T oice say: "Bun, Cliff!" : He called out: "Hands up!" taking .small pistol from his pocket. He .opened the door and dashed out, but did . not eeo anyone. , On reaching the top of the stairs he ttceived a blow on the face, and fell 'Pd struck his head on the bannisters, folding the revolver in his right hand. __He heard a report and then a gasp. 6 was flabbergasted, because he did Be 6 anyone. He scrambled up and *3® into, the street. ■e— He heard calls: "Stop that man!" j?® continued running. He discarded to pistol and a few articles of stolen jewellery. He had no intention of ™Mting o r harming anyone,' and was -to'v'd next morning to read that ."ebb had been killed. Accused was remanded, ft P rev^ous cable message stated ; Jjjf on' returning to his flat at Bays,a/ with his son, Mr Alfred Webb a burglar ransacking his room. * w followed, in which Mr Webb shot in the head, suffering a serious Bod. from .which he afterwards died. vHfsoa and a crowd pursued the • ,^ ar i who threw away his revolver Wi , escaped.] • V\," ■ ======