THE GROSS MURDER.
ARREST OF A PUGILIST
(United Press Aosociation.—Copyright.)
LONDON. Dec. 12
Frank Grain, a coloured pugilist, has been (arrested on a •charge of ibeing an accessory to the Gross miirder. Evidence was given that (he (and Gross purchased a revolver on the day (before the murder. """
Following ia convivial gathering in & house at Bloomsbury, London, of negro music-hall performers, in the early morning of the 2nd December, a negro woman (Annie Gross, who is over 6ffc. in height) shoit dead on the staircase Jessie Macintosh, an English actress who was living with the assailant's husband. When the piarty rushed upstairs the negress pointed the revolver ait her husband, but the cartridges (were exhausted. The husband took shelter in a bedroom, and the woman rushed into the street. The negroes then pursued' and oajptured her, after an exciting •chase, and handed her over to the ■policel. • "
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 14 December 1912, Page 5
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