MURDER ALLEGED
• ————— YORKSHIRE GROOM CHARGED EVIDENCE IN POLICE COURT. LONDON, October 18. “ If ever the fates played a murderer a dirty trick, they did it then,” admitted the prosecution in a charge of murder at a Police Court. Ernest Brown, 35, a groom, is charged with the murder of his employer, Frederick Ellison Morton, 28, a cattle factor, of Towton, Yorkshire,
In his speech for the prosecution, Mr Roberts added that Morton- had employed Brown for four years, during which he pressed his attention on Mrs Morton, with the result that intimacy occurred. It was alleged that when Morton returned home on September 5, Brown shot him and set fire to the garage. The flames destroyed the whole body except the portion containing the wound, the wad, and the pellets. The hearing was adjourned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22099, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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