VERDICT OF MURDER
DEATH OF ESSEX CONSTABLE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON. November 20
At the inquest on Constable Gutteridge a verdict of murder was returned against some person unknown. The police are of the opinion that he was about to take particulars when he was shot.
[A police constable named Guttcridgc was brutally murdered in a lonely Essex road on September 27, and was discovered with a pencil clutched in his hand. A notebook was found nearby. He had four bullet wounds in his head and neck, two of which were fired at a distance and the other two with the muzzle pressed close to each eye, both eyes being shattered. The police theory was that Gutteridge stopped a motor car and was about to enter particulars in his book, when he was shot in the eyes, the murderers firing twice again while the policeman was .on -the ground.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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149VERDICT OF MURDER Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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