A torn milk bill with chimney soot on it and an address that was the only clue left at the murder scene when police discovered the bodies of Mrs. Anne Wiseman, 65, and her 17-year-old niece strangled with flex in their suburban home in Melbourne on Sunday, November 13th, 1938. The milk bill, detectives
When a gamekeeper is murdered in the execution of his duty the most likely culprit is a poacher. So it was when gamekeeper David Evans was murdered on an estate in Northop, Flintshire, on March 11th, 1840. The police quickly pulled in a notorious poacher, Edward Jones, 47, and a jury just as quickly convicted
Having made a deal with Hitler, on March 14th, 1939, Slovakia declared itself independent of Czechoslovakia and next day Germany invaded the remaining Czech lands. Heading the independence deal was Slovakias Monsignor Jozef Tiso, an anti-Semitic active Catholic priest turned politician, whose political party now functioned, with the blessing of the Nazis, as almost the
Farmer George Graham, of Ballymachrennan, County Down, rued the day when he hired John Logue, 21. The young farm labourer was an inveterate thief and when he made off with a sheep, farmer Graham turned him in to the police. Logue was sentenced to four years for the theft, and spent his time in prison
British traveller Simon Davis told the receptionist at the Singapore hotel where he was staying: Ive kicked out my roommate. He made a homosexual advance towards me. Ill be paying the bill. The receptionist was hardly to know that Mr. Daviss companion was still in room 1511, murdered, cut into 10 pieces and stuffed into
According to their neighbours in Eversley, Hampshire, the Palmer-Radford family were somewhat secretive. There was certainly something odd about the murder on Wednesday, April 1st, 1992, of Jacqueline Palmer-Radford, 40, who was separated from her husband and lived with her two sons. Her body was found by one of her sons when he came home
Apartheid was a repugnant political philosophy to thinking people and some were prepared to carry their antagonism to extremes. One such was John Harris, who put a bomb in a suitcase on July 24th, 1964, and left it on a train seat in Johannesburg central station before casually walking off. The bomb went off at
Chaos reigned at the home of 61-year-old Mrs. Jeffries in Bristol on March 4th, 1849. The old lady lay beaten to death in the living-room, her dog had been killed and thrown down the lavatory, and the house had been ransacked. Her servant, Sarah Thomas, 18, had gone off to her parents home. When police
Jealousy and lust were inextricably mixed in the mind of James Rush whenever his mind turned to Stanfield Hall, owned by the local squire, Isaac Jermy. Rush leased a couple of farms from Jermy and, heavily in debt, rent day was an event he dreaded. He decided to wipe out all the family living at
The year was 1903 and, calling themselves the Automatic Trio, Gustave Marx, Harvey van Dine and Peter Neidermeier could justifiably claim to be Americas first shoot-to-kill gangster team. During five months in 1903 they killed eight men, including two detectives. They went for the big one in August 1903, at a city centre railway station