The Archive · 1940

Heard a Shot Private Robert Brown, servant to

Capt. Powell, said that on February 4 he was in Capt. Powell's room when he heard what appeared to be a shot coming from the passage outside. He thought it was a door being banged but the sound was not the same as the sound of the banging of doors he had heard that morning. Some time later he heard that Private Roy had been shot.

Sub-Inspector F. A. Ewins of the Arms Identification Section, S.MLP. identified a revolver handed to him as the one from which a bullet and a cartridge (produced) had been fired. In a demonstration in the courtroom Mr. Ewins showed that when the revolver was opened the six rounds in the chambers were ejected.

Mr. Abraham Grigorevitch Levin-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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