READING MURDER
A FRESH SENSATION MAN SURRENDERS TO POLICE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Oct. 29. noon.) LONDON, Oct. 23. Joseph Barratt, 45, walked into a Glasgow police statior. and made a s.atement concerning lilt Reading murder. Detectives were hastily summoned from Reading, and fiarratt was charged with the minder of .Alfred Oliver, of Reading. which led to an unjustified suspicion on Drew. liiirratt was remanded aJid a permit lor his removal to Reading grained, The iiii{U«st into the Reading murder provided one of ilie greatest sensations in England for years, strong efforts being made to implicate Drew, an actor,, who spent many hours in the witness boi under cross-examination. Subsequently, when an open verdist was returned he became a popular hero, the scenes outside the court being unparalleled for years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17094, 29 October 1929, Page 7
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