ARREST IN A TRAIN.
DRAMATIC CIPTUKE OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER. While quietly smoking a cigar in a railway carriage at York Station on Friday night, July 29, Edmund Hall, fifty t was arrested on a charge which will now be altered to one of murder. That evening John Dalby, seventy, of Alma Terrace, York, Hall's father-in-law, had been discovered with his throat cut and a wound in hia head l . The old man was bleeding profusely from his injuries, and he died in York Hospital on Sunday morning, July 31. Dalby's next-door neighbour said that he heard sounds as of a quarrel on Friday night, and the noise was followed by a long silence. Both back and front doors of the house were locked^ but, summoning -assistance, the neighbour burst one open. As the door was forced* a. man rushed* out, climbed over the yard wall, and disappeared. In the kitchen Dalby was discovered lying ais described. When Hall was arrested he was about to go to Leeds. His -Shirt-sleeves, it is alleged, were wet, as if they had beenj;ecently washed, and . marks of blood were found upon his clothing. He was charged next day with attempted murder.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8120, 20 September 1904, Page 2
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