San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
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often revealed by the ridiculous
stories of explanation which muir
derers hand out, expecting them to
be believed. But could anything
have been more preposterous and
unlikely than the explanation given
by George Ball, who it became
my duty to hang in Walton Jail,
Liverpool, as the perpetrator of the
crime known everywhere through
out England as "the Liverpool
sack murder"
Briefly, let me recall that pretty
mess: Christina Bradfield, who
looked after one of the offices of
her brother, a well-known manu-
facturer of canvas and tarpaulips,
disappeared. Every likely corner
was searched for her, and the po-
lice were beginning to be absolute
ly baffled when, as the result OF
an accident, the mystery was
solved-and another brought to
light.
A canal boat captain on the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal tried
to open the door of the lock in
the canal, but the gate stuck. Fish
ing around with boathook to
clear the obstruction, he felt some
thing soft, pulled it to the surface,
and found he had a bulky sack
dripping with water. When the
sack was hauled to the bank he
was startled to discover that it
contained the body of a rather
pretty girl-Miss Bradfield.
Investigation revealed the disap-
pearance of a packer named
George Ball and a hand-cart boy
named Samuel Elliott, aged eigh-
teen. For brevity's sake, let me
say that it was abundantly proven
that after business hours Miss
Bradfield had dismissed her en-
ployes, and George Ball requested
the Elliott boy to wait a moment
outside while he went again into
the establishment.
In half an hour Ball came out
again with hand-cart, and on it
was something in sack, covered
with a cart sheet. Elliott was ac-
customed to take orders from Ball,
so he pushed the truck along the
street at Balls direction and across
field, where he helped drag it to
the canal and throw it in.>
But although everything was
proved as clearly as daylight, this
is the extraordinary explanation
which Ball gave: He pretended
that he was busy about the factory
when he looked up and beheld a
stranger dart out from behind
some sacks and seize Miss Brad
field.
81 was then in a state" he as
serted, "that | did not know where
| was standing. | heard Miss
Bradfield fall. The man had his
arm on the body and pointed his
revolver at me.
81 could not see what the man
was doing owing to the partition:
He was in kneeling posture, still
pointing the revolver at me. The
next thing / saw was he had turned
the body round. The chap then
got up and snatched at her satchel,
and the watch fell on the floor.
cannot say whether it came from
the satchel or fell out of her hand.
As he snatched the satchel the man
said: III clear out Of this here and
leave you to it. He then rushed
out of the shop, pulling the vesti-
bule door behind him.
Elliott then came in and asked
me what / was looking so white
for. ! explained to him how the
man had come from behind the
sacks. l told him he had struck
Miss Bradfield on the head, and ]
showed him the bloodstains on the
trousers where / had had the head
on my knee.
Elliott said, 1T looks rather
black against you.'
81 said, IF anybody comes in
now l will get blamed for it right
away"
Ball then told how he and Elliott
had put the body in a sack and