YOUTHS FOR TRIAL
WOLVERHAMPTON MURDER.
<UNITI!> PRESI ASSOCIATION.—COPIRUIT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND OABLG ASSOCIATION.) x LONDON, 4th February. The youths Crossley and Heggarty .were committed for trial at Wolverhamp- '° 7 n°n a charge of murdering Constable Willits. The accuseds' companion, a boy named Dixon (14 years of age) gave evidence that he saw Heggarty shoot .the constable while witness held Willits' arm to stop him blowing his whistle. He"garty nl . e d agam tw j ce; and the CQn _ stable staggered across the road and fell.
Crossley and Heggarty were escapees from a probationary institution. The constable was shot in the back while on his beat in Wolverhampton.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 7
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106YOUTHS FOR TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 7
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