Word: fieldsend
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Among Scotland Yard's suspects was a man named Barry Fieldsend. Last month in London the Yard brought Fieldsend before a magistrate, charged him with unlawful possession of jewels worth ?10,000. He was released on ?2,500 bail and ordered to appear in court this week...
...fortnight before Fieldsend's trial date, Bertie Holliday registered at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Virginia Water, Surrey, asked to be called at 9 o'clock next morning. When a maid tried to waken him, she found him dead; he had shot himself with a pistol-walking stick. Detectives checked the suicide, found that they had their jewel thief; Fieldsend was Holliday, and Barry had killed Bertie...
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