DECOYED TO A WOOD
BOY STABBED TO DEATH. LONDON, January 12, Francis Booker, aged twenty-eight, has been remanded at Manchester on - the charge of murdering Percy Sharp, a boy of fourteen, on September 5. Sharp at an employment exchange a man who promised to find him a job. Tho man decoyed him to a wood, from which lie emerged screaming. Ho had been stabbed over the heart with a jack-knife. 'll to magistrate was informed that when Booker was arrested on another charge his house was searched, and the police found clothes and property belonging to Sharp.
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Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 3
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97DECOYED TO A WOOD Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 3
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