TROWBRIDGE MURDER
CORONER'S JURY DISAGREES
WITH COURT.
.(UNITED Pm» ASSOCIATION—COFWIOBT.) / (AVSTRAUAH.HSW MAUHD OABU ASMCUHOH.) (Received Ist February, noon.)
LONDON, Sl«t January. At the resumed inquest at Trowbridge on Edward Charles Richards, for \ whose murdft John Lincoln was sentenced to death, the jury returned a verdict of murder' by persons unidentified. The foreman said that he wished to add a rider: "We are of opinion that there lias been a grave miscarriage of justice." The Coroner refused to' accept the rider, saying, "You have no business to express such an opinion alter the case has been tried by a higher Court."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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100TROWBRIDGE MURDER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 4
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