Gallows End

Chapter 5

HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD IN HER HOMEThe Garside Gazette

The Garside GazetteMURDERED! MOTHER OF TRAGIC ROSIE PALMER FOUND DEAD

MURDERED! MOTHER OF TRAGIC ROSIE PALMER FOUND DEAD35-year-old Ethel Palmer found dead in her home. The Police are treating the case as murder.

35-year-old Ethel Palmer found dead in her home. The Police are treating the case as murder.The Gazette can exclusively confirm that Ethel Palmer, mother of 7-year-old Rosie, callously knocked down and killed by fleeing bandits last year, has been found dead in her home in mysterious circumstances. West Garside CID are treating the case as murder, and DI Yarrow, leading the investigation, has confirmed that they wish to interview Ethel’s husband John (Jack) Palmer in connection with the incident and have appealed to the public for information as to his whereabouts.

Regular Gazette readers will recall the attempted snatch of wages from the West Yorkshire Bank in which 24-year-old wages clerk Peter Cushman was mercilessly gunned down in cold blood by the ruthless killers. In attempting to escape the scene, the fleeing robbers, without care or thought except for their own preservation, knocked down and killed poor Rosie

GazetteSubsequently, gunman Frankie Starling was apprehended by DI Yarrow and paid for his heinous crimes on the gallows of Armley Jail…