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109:. Wood was put on trial for the murder, during which Marshall Hall displayed the kind of effective and dramatic cross-examination for which he was known. Marshall Hall was convinced of Wood's innocence, and also of the fallibility of the prosecution case. The judge Mr Justice Grantham departed from the pro-conviction stance he was expected to take mid-summing up, and made it clear he thought the jury should acquit. They did, after retiring for 15 minutes between 7:45 and 8:00 pm. 101:. Her attacker had slit her throat while she was asleep, then left in the morning. On the 12th, Shaw returned home during the evening to find his room locked. He borrowed a key from a neighbour, and upon entering found Phyllis lying naked on the bed, throat cut from ear to ear. It was a savage but skilful attack on her from the nature of the wound. Nothing much had been taken from the flat, and the motive was a mystery; the case quickly became a sensation. 57: 104:
After initial difficulty, the police investigation led by Inspector Neill centred on Robert Wood, an artist. A former girlfriend of Wood's, Ruby Young, recognised his handwriting on a postcard found in Dimmock's room, which had been published in many newspapers; she mentioned the similarity of the
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On 11 September 1907, Emily Elizabeth Dimmock (known as Phyllis), a part-time prostitute in a relationship with Bertram Shaw, a railwayman, was murdered in her home at Agar Grove (then 29 St Paul's Road), Camden, having gone there from The Eagle public house,
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for a series of etchings, paintings and drawings in 1908–09, in each of which the subjects are a clothed man and a nude woman. It was dramatised in 'The Post Card' an episode of the radio crime anthology series
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and broadcast on 4 September 1957. More than thirty years later, the court case featured in an episode of the
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Robert Wood (artist)
The Camden Town Murder


murder
Camden Town
London
prostitute
Edward Marshall Hall
Royal College Street
Fleet Street
Walter Sickert
The Camden Town Murder
The Black Museum
Orson Welles
Clive Brook
Killer in Close-Up
George F. Kerr
Sydney
ABN-2
BBC
Shadow of the Noose
Jonathan Hyde
Peter Capaldi


Januszczak, Waldemar
"Walter Sickert – murderous monster or sly self-promoter?"
The Times

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