LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 5

LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY.

1 SUMNER S STATEMENT

BY CABLE—PRESS ABSOCIATION--COPYBIGHT.

(Received Dec. 23, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON^ Dec. 22

Sumne.r;'asserts that a tell ■chap, trith a brown moustache, threatened liim with : a marlinspike and revolver. The man then struct Miss Bradneld with a, .tnarlinspike several times, and snatched her; satchel, and watch. The latter fell, and as he ran Sumner picked it uoi As things looked black, he and Eltofjfc tied up the "body and carried :it to-the c^ihal. They returned ■to lock up the office, and thence 'K^ent "to their homes.