A DEADLY RECORD.
SUPPOSED CRIMES OF TOPLISS. ''By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ' (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) London, June 8. • Topliss has been definitely identified. It is suggested that he was also the perpetrator of three recent untraceel crimes—the murder of Nurse Shore in, the Hastings train in January, the murder of Mr Hoare and his house- , keeper near Truro, and the murder of Constable Kelly at Acton. [Private Topliss, who murdered a J chauffeur at Andover on 24th April, and escaped in the chauffeur's motor j car, was rounded up and shot in a Cumberland village on Sunday, after six weeks' hue and cry, during which Topliss made sevoral attempts to hold up motorists. He also shot a. police- ! man and a farmer in the Banffshiro. I highlands. A Cumberland policeman, and, escaped temporarily. A party_ of police collected and surrounded him. , Topliss made a last stand, firing until he was shot dead.]
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 1
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