MURDER OF CONSTABLE
THE ESSEX SHOOTING DETECTIVES INTERVIEW SEAMAN. Press Association- By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. (Received January 7, at 8.50 a.m.) Detectives boarded a steamship from Australia at Tilbury Docks and interviewed a seaman concerning the happenings during the voyage, it is understood that now and important facts have thus come into possession of the police regarding the sensational murder of Police Constable Gutteridge. [A police constable named Gutteridge was brutally murdered in a lonely Essex road on September 27, and was discovered with a pencil 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 lie was shot in the eyes, the murderers firing twice again while the policeman was on the ground. At the inquest a verdict of murder was returned against some person unknown.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 6
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180MURDER OF CONSTABLE Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 6
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