THROWN FROM BRIDGE.
UNUSUAL MURDER CASE. NOTHING ToluToVE CRIME. (Australian. Press Association.) LONDON. Sept. 23. A case said to be without parallel in English law was heard before a Bow Street Magistrate to-day. Albert Lord, aged 29, who was accused of murdering an unknown woman by throwing her over Waterloo Bridge into the Thames, was discharged. Lord surrendered to the police and stated that he met a woman named Rose. They walked together to Waterloo Bridge, where they quarrelled, and ho threw her over the parapet into the river.
No body w-ias found, and no one named Rose is missing. The Public Prosecutor outlined cases where a conviction for murder had been recorded, though no body was found. One was where the captain of a -ship was thrown overboard by a sailor. The body disappeared in the currents, but the sailor was convicted because he had been seen struggling with the captain. If the magistrate did not commit Lord lie could be rearrested in the event of tire body being recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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171THROWN FROM BRIDGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 254, 25 September 1929, Page 7
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