SHERLOCK HOLMES AGAIN
A neat piece of defective 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 Lei and kilhd her She was cairied along for some distance by the bonnet of the car, and thrown into the roadway. The callous driver went off without stopping. Beneath the girl’s bicycle the police found an oil receptacle for a motor lamp and a niece of iron rod. With these slender clues the police tracked down a Hounslow man named Brewer. He denied I'yi he had been in an accident, but an examination showed 1 that a piece of iron bar, similar to the one found, was missing. At ihe Old Brewer was sentenced to 18 months hard labor for manslaughter.
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Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 8
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136SHERLOCK HOLMES AGAIN Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 8
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