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26-01-10, 15:12
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Oooh, there's a bit more......hang on whilst I transcribe.....lol (two fingers!)
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26-01-10, 15:18
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The Times 4th March 1925
Private Wright (West Yorkshire Regiment), a soldier of the British Army of the Rhine, who was recently found Guilty and sentenced to death for the murder at Cologne of Maria Stasiak, a German girl, and Lance Corporal Whitwan (sic), has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. The defence at the Court-martial was "pathalogical drunkeness" - Reuter.
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26-01-10, 15:19
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Who needs professional researchers when we have Merry.
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26-01-10, 15:20
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See Stella
Your mum did have it right.
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26-01-10, 15:29
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OH MY GOD Merry!! I can't believe you have found this so quickly - I am shaking with excitement now, all of a dither. There was RUMOUR that he actually killed TWO people, but I found this hard to believe, but it was true then! All I heard from my mother was that he found his fiance in a compromising situation (anyone's guess) with another man. It was rumoured he shot them both! I can't believe it - oh my God!! I went with my father to visit him in Harrogate - he was known as Uncle Dick and seemed such a nice old man (well old to me) and all I remember was he lived in an upstairs flat and as we left he gave me some sweets and waved at us as we left. How sad. He was sentenced to death I know, but had this reduced on appeal to 30 years imprisonment. I can't thank you all enough, especially you Merry.
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26-01-10, 15:32
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*wow*!
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26-01-10, 15:34
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And I think finally.....
The Times 24th Dec 1924 BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN RHINELAND (FROM OUR RHINELAND CORRESPONDENT) COLOGNE DEC 23rd Lance Corporal Whitham (not sure how I've spelled his name previously, but this is clear!), of the 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, was shot dead last night in a cafe near Mulheim Barracks, and a German girl named Maria Stasiak, who was with him was so severely wounded that her life is despaired of. Four British soldiers are under arrest in connexion with the affair. A court of inquiry was held this morning. It is suggested that jealousy was the motive for the crime.
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26-01-10, 15:35
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Merry, would it be possible for me to get a copy of that newspaper somehow? Also, would it not have been in the 'Yorkshire Post' newspaper, seeing as the Wrights were a Harrogate family and, I believe, quite well-known. Richard's brother Robert (my grandad) was an Army man nearly all his life and held a high-ranking position. My printer is out of action, so would love a copy of all that somehow. My late mother did say it was classed as a 'crime of passion' which is why he wasn't hung.
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26-01-10, 15:35
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The GF medal of the MONTH goes to Merry
Absolutely brilliant detective work.
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