A SENSATIONAL CRIME.
Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright A WOMAN’S NERVE. LONDON, January 18. Hill, an ex-soldier, shot and killed Mr Pearson, an elderly farmer, in the lavatory of a compartment in the London and Southwestern -train near Surbiton. He then shot at and wounded in the cheek a woman, who was the only other passenger in the compartment Hill next rifled Pearson’s body, and jumped off when the train entered the Vauxhall Bridge railway station. The woman, who had pluckily feigned death, gave the alarm, *and the murderer was arrested after an exciting chase.
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Evening Star, Issue 11451, 19 January 1901, Page 6
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94A SENSATIONAL CRIME. Evening Star, Issue 11451, 19 January 1901, Page 6
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