SHERLOCK HOLMES AGAIN.
A neat piece of detective work was told in a London Police Court recently. A young woman was cycling along the Bath-road, near Hounslow, when a motor-car dashed into her and killed her. She was carried along for somo distance by the bonnet of the car, and thrown into the roadway. Tho callous driver went off without stopping, Beneath the girl's bioyclo tho police found an oil receptacle for a motor lamp and a piece of iron rod. With these slondflr clues the police tracked down a Hounslow man named Brewer. -Ho denied: that he had been- in an accident, but an examination of his car showed that a pieco of iron bar, similar to the one-found, was missing. At the Old. Bailey Brewor was sentenced to 18 months' I hard labour for manslaughter. I
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 56, 8 March 1919, Page 10
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