Robert Bentley

Unsolved Murders

Age: 37

Sex: male

Date: 19 Dec 1910

Place: 11 Exchange Buildings, Houndsditch

Sergeant Charles Tucker, Sergeant Robert Bentley, Constable Walter Choate and George Gardstein were all shot and killed during a robbery on a jewellers in Hounsditch.

Sergeant Tucker, Sergeant Bentley and Constable Choate were policemen whilst George Gardstein was one of the robbers who was shot by another one of the robbers as he shot a policeman, the bullet passing through the policeman and hitting George Gardstein.

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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/191

see City Of London Police

see Dundee Courier - Monday 19 December 1910

see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 17 January 1911

see The History Student

see Greater London Murders

see Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 10 July 2016), April 1911, trial of DUBOF, Zurka (24, painter) PETERS, Jacob (24, tailor's presser) ROSEN, John (26, hairdresser) VASSILEVA, Nina (23, cigarette maker) (t19110425-75).

see National Library of Scotland

see Unsolved 1910