BLACKALLER MURDER

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1925, Page 5

BLACKALLER MURDER

IS RHODES QUITE SANE? LONDON, April 21. Mary Rich, a domestic servant, told the Magistrate that the youth Rhodes, on ihe eve of the murder, remarked: “1 am going to do in Grace BlackalIcr and myself, because she is fooling me about.’ f Just before the fatal meeting, Rhodes tapped his waistcoat pocket, saying “The razor is in here!* Witness replied “Don’t be silly.” Next morning she found Rhodes crying in the kitchen. He said: You will see in Saturdays papers what I have done. ’ ’ Rhodes’s sister screamed when called to the witness box. Speaking hysterically, sho said that Rhodes received an injury to his head in infancy, which had never properly closed. He had consulted several specialists in Germany, where he was living in 1917. He was a butt for schoolboys, because he was all right one day und silly’ the next.