Age: 60
Sex: male
Date: 22 Jun 1929
Place: 15 Cross Street, Reading
Alfred Oliver was killed in a robbery at his shop. He was a tobacconist. The murderer stole between £10 and £12.
It was thought that his killer had come into his shop and whilst being served had hit Alfred Oliver on the head over the counter before taking money from the till and leaving.
see www.amazon.co.uk
see Western Morning News - Wednesday 23 October 1929
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 26 June 192
see National Archives - MEPO 3/1650
see Murder in Old Berkshire: A Collection of Sudden Deaths by Roger Long p33-48
see Real-Life Crimes, 130, p2858-2863
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 04 July 1929
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 27 June 1929
see The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew: A Real Life Murder Melodrama in Three Acts, Richard Whittington-Egan
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1929
