TRIPLE MURDER.
ENGLISH HOTEL CASE. COMMITTAL OF ACCUSED. A. and N.Z LONDON, Dec. 6. Probationer Constable Herbert Burrows has been committed for trial at Worcester for the murder of the publican, George Laight, his wife and their baby, whose bodies were found in the hotel cellar, where an attempt had apparently been made to burn them. Suspicion was aroused by Burrows asking a colleague an hour before the bodies were found if he' knew the Laights had been shot. The police stated in evidence that Burrows had admitted the crime, and said the cause would never be "known.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 9
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98TRIPLE MURDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 9
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