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or Apple podcasts. Thomas

3:00

Rimmer said goodbye to his wife

3:02

and child before swinging his leg

3:04

over his bike and cycling out

3:07

of Madrin Street. He

3:09

rode past the entrance to Prince's

3:12

Park towards his mother's home two

3:14

miles away in Wafer Tree. It

3:18

was close to 7 p.m. on August 20th 1951

3:20

and the son had not yet set over Liverpool

3:25

when Thomas turned onto Cranbourne

3:28

Road. The

3:30

24-year-old factory worker dismounted his bike

3:32

as it rolled to the curb

3:34

at the pathway outside number 7,

3:36

a place familiar

3:39

to him as this was where he

3:41

was raised. The

3:43

narrow residential street was lined

3:45

on either side with identical

3:48

terraced houses with large bay

3:50

windows. Jack

3:52

Grossman who lived next door in number

3:54

9 greeted Thomas and told

3:56

him that the half pint of milk

3:58

on his mother's door step had been

4:01

sitting there curdling in the heat

4:03

since morning. Thomas

4:06

acknowledged what the neighbour said as

4:08

he approached the wooden-panelled front door.

4:11

He extended his arm and pressed

4:13

the doorbell three times in

4:15

quick succession, waiting for his

4:17

widowed mother Beatrice Alice Rimmer

4:19

to let him inside. He

4:23

didn't hear the faint taps of her shoes

4:25

as she came to the door to greet

4:27

him, or the usual click of the latch

4:30

before his mother swung open the door. This

4:33

was most unusual. Beatrice

4:36

knew her son was visiting.

4:39

Without any sign of movement through the

4:41

blind on the front door, Thomas lifted

4:43

the flap of the letterbox to peer

4:46

inside the home. There

4:49

was nothing in his direct line of sight.

4:52

It was difficult to see every angle

4:54

as Thomas looked through the small rectangular

4:57

hole, but he managed to fix

4:59

his gaze on the floor. A

5:02

few feet from the entryway, he

5:05

focused on his mother lying in

5:07

the hallway. In

5:10

the time that he watched her, there was

5:12

no sound from inside the home, and

5:14

she didn't appear to move an inch.

5:18

There was no reply to

5:20

her son's panicked response. Thomas

5:26

turned around, grabbing his bike

5:28

with urgency. He

5:31

momentarily paused, only to

5:33

tell the neighbour that something was wrong.

5:36

He didn't have time to elaborate as

5:38

he pedalled down to the end of

5:41

Cranbourne Road and turned into a back

5:43

passage between the houses. Thomas

5:47

hoisted himself over the stone wall

5:49

and into the small back garden,

5:51

using his bike to steady himself.

5:55

He would later say, I

5:57

notice that a pane of glass in the

5:59

kitchen window. window was broken. I

6:02

tried the back door leading from the yard,

6:04

but it appeared to be bolted, and

6:07

broke more glass from the hole in

6:09

the window and climbed through. Thomas

6:14

rushed into the hallway. The

6:16

familiar checkered tiles lined the

6:18

walls, but the carpet

6:21

runner was saturated. He

6:23

soon realized it was his mother's blood.

6:27

As a former police constable, Thomas

6:30

had some basic first-day training, and

6:32

when he failed to find a pulse

6:35

on his mother's wrist, he opened the

6:37

front door and called for neighbor Jack

6:39

Grossman to phone the police. Constables

6:44

Robert Evans and Stanley Wright

6:46

arrived on Cranbourne Road around

6:48

ten minutes later, and after

6:50

confirming Mrs. Rimmer was dead,

6:52

they called for senior officers.

6:56

It was obvious from the outset that

6:58

she had been murdered. 54-year-old

7:05

Beatrice Alice Rimmer had lived

7:07

at the house on Cranbourne

7:09

Road for almost 30

7:11

years. Her

7:13

husband, Thomas Woozy Rimmer, died

7:16

just a year earlier, after

7:18

suddenly collapsing in their back garden.

7:22

Thomas had worked as an audit

7:24

clerk for a tobacco manufacturer, and

7:27

in his will, along with his pension,

7:29

he left his widow an estate totaling

7:31

over £1,100, the

7:35

equivalent of over £40,000 today. Mrs.

7:40

Rimmer, who chose to be referred to

7:42

as Alice, was described by

7:44

some neighbors as being

7:47

a semi-recluse. The

7:49

neighbor two doors down, Mr.

7:51

Baker, remarked, although

7:53

she went out most days, it was

7:55

always alone, and she never

7:57

returned with anyone. discussed

8:00

her business with anyone as far as

8:02

I'm aware. Alice

8:06

had a soft spot for the baker's

8:08

dog, Rover, and most days he

8:10

would wander into her garden and wait

8:12

for her to let him inside. Rover

8:16

was among the very few guests

8:18

welcomed inside the immaculately kept house.

8:22

After the dog enjoyed some treats

8:25

Alice would send Rover back home.

8:29

In spite of her neighbours beliefs Alice

8:32

did have some social hobbies. She

8:35

attended meetings with the Dovedale

8:37

Ladies bowling club at Wavertree

8:39

playground but couldn't be convinced

8:41

to go to club outings with the

8:43

other members. Mrs

8:46

Liggett the secretary of the bowling

8:48

club told the Liverpool Echo

8:50

that Alice hadn't been in good

8:52

health for the previous two seasons

8:55

so she hadn't played as much as she

8:57

used to. Another

9:00

pleasure was card games which

9:02

Alice played when meeting other players

9:04

at Sefton Park Conservative Club a

9:06

few times a week. One

9:09

of the women who played cards with

9:11

Alice told the Echo. It

9:13

has been said Mrs Rimmer was a

9:16

recluse and never went out at night

9:19

but this is far from being the truth. She

9:22

went out to a wist drive most

9:24

nights. She seemed happy and

9:26

jolly when I saw her on Saturday.

9:32

Following the sudden death of her husband Alice

9:35

Rimmer spent every Sunday afternoon with

9:37

her son Thomas and his wife

9:40

Marion. She frequently

9:42

encouraged her boy to rejoin

9:44

the police force. Sunday

9:47

August 19th was no different

9:49

and after having dinner together

9:51

and playing cards Thomas

9:53

accompanied his mother to the bus

9:55

stop at the junction of Princes

9:57

Avenue and Granby Street. With

10:00

the strap of her umbrella looped around

10:02

her right wrist and a bunch of

10:04

flowers in her other hand, Alice

10:07

boarded the number 27 bus

10:09

at around 9.45pm. The

10:13

bus driver, Henry Francis Bentley,

10:16

recalled seeing a woman he

10:18

described as middle-aged and well-built,

10:20

wearing a brown straw hat

10:22

and brown coat, boarded the

10:24

bus at that stop. She

10:28

disembarked around five minutes later at

10:30

the junction between Lodge Lane and

10:32

Smith Down Road. Depending

10:36

on the weather, Alice usually

10:38

took the tram from Smith Down

10:40

Road or walked the ten-minute journey

10:42

back to her home. After

10:49

Beatrice Alice Rimmer was found dead,

10:51

senior officers who worked in the

10:54

Liverpool City Police Force attended the

10:56

scene. When discovered

10:58

in the hallway, Alice was

11:00

lying in an awkward position. A

11:04

brown straw hat that she had

11:06

been wearing earlier appeared to have

11:08

fallen off, perhaps in a struggle.

11:11

Without it covering her head, a

11:14

number of open wounds on the left

11:16

side of her scalp were visible through

11:18

her hair, which was matted with blood.

11:22

It seemed as if most of the blood

11:24

loss came from these wounds, and

11:26

clumps of hair were found in the

11:28

pool of blood beneath her head. The

11:32

yellow floral sundae best dress she

11:34

wore when she visited her son

11:36

had bunched above her knees, indicating

11:38

she had struggled on the floor.

11:42

She couldn't get far as her foot was

11:44

caught on a wooden chair next to the

11:46

front door. It

11:49

was obvious that Alice had been

11:51

killed almost immediately after arriving home

11:53

from her sons. The

11:56

umbrella was still wrapped around her wrist,

11:58

and the bouquet of flowers was wilting in

12:01

the plastic sheeting they were wrapped in.

12:04

Next to her closed right fist

12:06

was a small leather key purse

12:09

containing the front door key and

12:11

her handbag which was undisturbed. Once

12:15

pristinely white, her neck

12:17

gloves were soaked with blood and clung

12:19

tightly to a visible wound on the

12:21

back of her right hand. There

12:24

were also cuts on the back of

12:26

her brown coat. A

12:29

window pane at the back of the

12:31

property had been broken just above the

12:33

catch. Thomas Rimmer

12:35

said he had climbed in through

12:37

the window after removing some of

12:39

the larger shards of glass with

12:41

a piece of brick he found

12:43

outside. Either

12:45

the perpetrator was lying in wait for

12:48

Alice to return or they

12:50

barged in when she opened her front

12:52

door. It was unclear.

12:55

Looking around his mother's home, Thomas

12:57

didn't notice anything missing which made

13:00

it more likely that whoever attacked

13:02

his mother had done so as

13:04

soon as she entered the house.

13:08

Ex-door neighbours didn't hear anything on

13:10

the night of the 19th but

13:12

the blood spatter all over the

13:14

hallway indicated that it had been

13:16

a vicious and prolonged assault. No

13:20

murder weapon was found during preliminary

13:22

searches of a house. Scenes

13:25

of crime officers were called

13:27

along with forensic experts and

13:29

the pathologist. Dr

13:31

James B Firth, director of the

13:33

Preston Home Office Forensic Science Lab,

13:36

arrived at the scene shortly before

13:39

11pm. He examined

13:41

the body in situ and

13:43

collected swabs of blood from the floor

13:45

and walls. Alice had

13:48

obvious head injuries and there was a

13:50

considerable amount of blood near her head

13:52

and on the wall between the front

13:54

door and the door to the sitting

13:56

room. The direction

13:58

of blood spatter all on the walls

14:00

gave the impression that the majority of

14:03

the blows were inflicted on the victim

14:05

as she lay on the floor. Small

14:08

pieces of glass found near the window

14:11

were also bagged and taken to the

14:13

lab for analysis. Alton

14:16

Pathologist Dr. Charles Bernard Manning

14:18

arrived at the scene soon

14:20

after Dr. Firth. Beatrice

14:23

Alice Rimmer's body was removed to

14:25

the city mortuary at 1am, where

14:28

Dr. Manning conducted a post-mortem

14:30

in the presence of Dr.

14:32

Firth, who collected anything of

14:34

evidentiary value. Dr.

14:38

Manning logged that there were more than 15 wounds

14:41

on the victim's scalp, predominantly

14:43

concentrated on the left side of

14:45

her head, including a tear to

14:48

her left earlobe. The

14:50

two-inch area of her skull was exposed

14:52

near the back of her head. Upon

14:56

further examination the pathologist found

14:58

two skull fractures running perpendicular

15:00

to each other, one

15:02

up from the base of the

15:04

neck and the other horizontally forming

15:07

a T-shape. Alice

15:09

had suffered a subdural cerebral hemorrhage

15:11

believed to have been inflicted by

15:13

a light weapon swung with such

15:16

force that it perforated her skin

15:18

but did not pierce the bone.

15:21

Shallow wounds of varied shapes were

15:24

also noted, some were

15:26

straight or curved and some

15:28

unusually were star-shaped. Heavy

15:31

bruising on Alice's right arm and

15:33

hand suggested that she had held

15:36

it above her head to try

15:38

and protect herself from the 20

15:40

plus blows inflicted on her body.

15:43

Her right index finger was fractured

15:46

and below it was an irregular shaped

15:48

wound that measured three-quarters of an inch

15:50

in length. There were

15:52

three angular cuts between her shoulder

15:55

blades consistent with the tears seen

15:57

in her brown coat and yellow

15:59

dress. Similar

16:01

damage was found to her straw

16:03

hat which had an uneven hole

16:05

on the left side that corresponded

16:07

to the injuries on the victim's

16:09

head. All

16:12

of the blood found at the scene

16:14

was confirmed to be group A which

16:16

was matched to Alice's blood type. The

16:19

loose hair that was found next to her

16:21

head was hers and appeared to

16:23

have been severed from her head with a

16:25

sharp weapon not pulled out

16:28

in a struggle. Dr

16:31

Manning concluded that Beatrice Alice Rimmer's

16:33

cause of death was due to

16:35

brain hemorrhage, shock and

16:38

skull fractures following repeated blows

16:40

to the head with one

16:42

or more weapons. Aside

16:49

from the broken window, there were no

16:51

signs of any disturbance in the real

16:53

living area or the kitchen. Thomas

16:56

Rimmer couldn't recall if the rear door

16:59

into the kitchen was locked when he

17:01

arrived. In a

17:03

state of panic, he had entered by

17:05

clambering through the broken window, but

17:08

the first officers to arrive at the

17:10

scene were able to gain entry through

17:12

the back door. Superintendent

17:16

Hector Taylor took charge of the CID

17:18

team assigned to the case, while

17:20

his superior Superintendent Herbert Bama

17:23

was on holiday in Ireland.

17:28

According to the pathologist Beatrice

17:30

Alice Rimmer's death had not

17:32

been immediate and he believed

17:34

that she had died around

17:36

2am on August 20th having

17:38

been attacked at around 10pm

17:40

the night before. She

17:43

had clung to life alone for

17:45

four hours before she passed away

17:47

from her injuries. All

17:52

available officers were dispatched to search

17:54

the area in squad casts. Shining

17:57

torches out of the window as they

17:59

cruised along Smithtown Road, they scoured

18:02

the cemetery and nearby sites that

18:04

had been blitzed in the war,

18:07

looking for anything that could be linked

18:09

with the murder. Inquiries

18:11

were made at local railway

18:13

stations, docks and roads leading

18:15

out of the city. It

18:19

was the largest murder investigation in

18:21

two years, since a manager and

18:23

his assistant were gunned down in

18:25

the Cameo Cinema one street away

18:27

from Alice's home. The

18:31

victim's neighbours Lillian Cornfirth and

18:33

Mr Baker both said they

18:35

hadn't heard anything suspicious. Mr

18:39

Baker's second dog Skip, who

18:41

usually barked at everything, hadn't

18:43

barked in the last 24 hours. As

18:48

forensic experts continued to dust the

18:50

house for prints, Superintendent

18:52

Taylor appealed to the public and

18:54

asked anyone who had visited the

18:56

house in the past three months

18:58

to get in touch, so

19:01

they could be eliminated from the inquiry.

19:04

Checks were made with all local dry

19:07

cleaners on the chance that the killer

19:09

had handed in bloodstain clothing. It

19:12

was believed that whoever committed the

19:14

murder would have been considerably bloody

19:16

in the aftermath. The

19:19

street was sealed off while

19:21

uniformed officers from Liverpool City

19:23

Police conducted doorstep interviews with

19:26

neighbours in search gardens for

19:28

potential murder weapons. Some

19:31

neighbours thought it was likely that Alice

19:33

kept cash in the house as she

19:35

was widowed and didn't work. CID

19:39

detectives inquired at Merseyside approved

19:41

schools and Remand homes to

19:43

see if anyone had absconded

19:45

in the past few days.

19:48

Boising the challenges the

19:51

investigation faced, Superintendent Taylor

19:53

remarked, We have

19:55

no idea what the man we are looking

19:57

for is like, what sort of

19:59

weapon. to look for. The

20:02

window at the rear of the house was

20:05

only wide enough for someone with a slim

20:07

bill to climb through. Superintendent

20:10

Taylor continued, While we

20:12

do not rule out that the crime might

20:14

have been committed by a woman, we

20:17

think it more likely that only a

20:19

man could have used such force with

20:21

what we believe was only a light

20:23

weapon, probably a stick or a large

20:26

hand torch. Beatrice

20:32

Alice Rimmer's funeral was held

20:34

at Halliton Cemetery Chapel on

20:36

August 24th, Hundreds

20:42

of women kept vigil as they

20:44

lined the pavements along Cranbourne

20:46

and Smithdown Road on a rainy

20:49

Friday afternoon. The

20:51

chapel service led by Reverend Alan

20:54

Kemp was packed and over

20:56

100 people waited at the graveside

20:58

for the funeral cottage.

21:03

Alongside the police and Alice's son,

21:05

the victim's brother had travelled from

21:07

Newcastle after reading of his sister's

21:10

death. They

21:12

hadn't spoken in four years and

21:15

he was shocked to hear of her

21:17

murder. The

21:22

investigation was galvanised by the

21:24

return of the head of

21:26

Liverpool CID Superintendent Herbert Bama

21:28

the following week and detectives

21:30

continued to work on the

21:32

theory that an intruder had

21:34

killed Beatrice Alice Rimmer. The

21:38

drawers and cupboards were closed which

21:40

didn't suggest a burglar had ransacked

21:42

the house but a peculiar discovery

21:45

was made in the kitchen. Three

21:49

sweet wrappers were found, one

21:51

on the table and two on the floor next

21:53

to it. They appeared

21:55

to be freshly discarded and were

21:57

from different manufacturers including

22:00

Santa's super sweets and

22:02

having a rutledge. Superintendent

22:05

Barmour remarked, ''It

22:07

is a significant fact that Mrs

22:09

Rimmer was known to be scrupulously

22:12

clean and not the type to

22:14

discard caramel papers in her home.

22:16

We believe that the sweets were eaten

22:19

by the intruders inside the house and

22:21

that they had made an entry just

22:23

before Mrs Rimmer reached her front door.

22:26

No one could have had time to eat

22:28

two sweets and in any case, a

22:31

house was not upset or disturbed

22:33

in any way. Confectionary

22:37

stores in the Wavertree area and

22:39

across the city were canvassed to

22:42

see if anyone had specifically requested

22:44

those types of sweets together as

22:46

they were usually sold in different

22:49

bags. Tests

22:51

were still ongoing at the Northwestern

22:53

Forensic Science Laboratory to try and

22:55

ascertain exactly what kind of weapon

22:58

was used in a murder. Investigators

23:01

began looking through records of similar

23:03

break-ins to try and find a

23:06

link. In

23:08

the weekends preceding the murder, several

23:10

houses in Liverpool were burgled by

23:12

someone who broke the right-hand pane

23:14

of glass in the lower sash

23:16

of a rear window. Enough

23:19

glass had been removed each time

23:21

to allow someone to climb inside.

23:25

On the evening of August 4th, a

23:28

house on Harvey Street had been broken

23:30

into and a piece of coal

23:32

was used to chip away the glass remnants

23:34

from the frame. Over

23:37

200 cigarettes, a Waterman

23:39

found in Ballpoint pen and

23:41

£1.08 shillings in cash were

23:43

taken from the house. One

23:46

week later, a property on Alderson

23:49

Road near Smithdown Road had been

23:51

broken into in the same fashion.

23:54

The distinct sound of glass breaking was heard at

23:56

around 11.45pm on August. 11th

24:01

and when the homeowner Edna Conway

24:03

returned she found that someone

24:05

had eaten a tin of salmon and

24:08

opened tins of fruit. The

24:10

coin meter under the stairs had been

24:12

emptied as had a

24:14

trunk that contained nickel plated knives

24:17

under sugar basin along with a

24:19

cream jug and a porn ticket.

24:22

An axe that was kept downstairs was

24:24

later found beneath the duvet in the

24:27

bedroom and it was believed to

24:29

have been carried as a weapon by

24:31

the intruder in case they were interrupted.

24:35

Edna Conway's coat described as

24:37

being two years old navy

24:39

coloured and double breasted with

24:41

pointed lapels was also absent.

24:44

The coat was unique as it had been

24:47

dyed, leaving a greenish

24:49

tinge to the half length lining

24:51

inside. Superintendent

24:53

Barmus said, it

24:55

seems very likely that someone has come

24:58

into possession of the coat and

25:00

I appeal most earnestly to anyone

25:02

who thinks they have it to

25:04

come forward immediately. Three

25:09

days later on August 14th the

25:12

items from the Alderson Road Break-in

25:14

were discovered inside an oven in

25:16

a disused bakery on Spothforth Road.

25:20

On August 16th several days before

25:22

Beatrice Alice Rimmer was killed there

25:25

were reports that two teenage boys

25:27

were seen attempting to climb the

25:30

wooden gate leading to the premises.

25:33

Before they climbed over other children

25:35

nearby shouted to them that the

25:38

police were inside and the teenagers

25:40

ran off. One

25:43

was described as being five feet

25:45

six inches tall with a medium

25:47

frame and straight dark hair. He

25:50

had been wearing a dark blue jacket,

25:53

black plimsolls and grey

25:55

flannel trousers tucked into the top

25:57

of his socks. boy

26:00

was said to be a bit

26:02

shorter at 5 feet 4 inches

26:04

and wore a lumber jacket with

26:06

dark-colored trousers. Believing

26:09

the teenagers could have been

26:11

responsible for the fatal break-in

26:13

detectives questioned hundreds of youths

26:15

at local schools during the

26:18

first week of September. Superintendent

26:21

Bama said we want

26:24

to see every schoolboy. All

26:26

school children will be interviewed in

26:28

an endeavor to trace the two

26:31

15-year-old boys we wish to interview.

26:35

A few days later, Bama ordered

26:37

that every street grid and gully

26:39

along Cranbourne Road be searched for

26:41

the murder weapon. Liverpool

26:44

Corporation suction pumps were used to

26:46

clear the gullies and flush out

26:49

any debris to awaiting investigators. A

26:51

10 inch

26:53

knife with a yellow handle that was

26:56

stained black from use was discovered. And

26:59

although it didn't look like it had been in

27:01

the drains for long, no evidence

27:03

led investigators to believe it was

27:05

the murder weapon. Superintendent

27:08

Bama revealed more information

27:10

to the public. The

27:13

police believe the tallis had been attacked

27:16

with multiple weapons as soon as she

27:18

entered her house on August 19. Bama

27:22

stated Mrs. Rimmer was

27:24

known to be terribly scared of

27:26

burglars and on entering her home

27:28

after darkness she was known to

27:30

rush along the lobby immediately after

27:32

she got the front door open

27:35

to switch on the electric light.

27:39

She never reached the light switch

27:41

according to Bama. Mrs.

27:43

Rimmer was struck down at once.

27:46

There is no doubt that her assailants

27:48

had rained blow after blow upon her

27:50

and from the nature of the wounds

27:53

we are of the opinion that there

27:55

was more than one attacker. The

28:01

investigation seemed to slow down until

28:03

the police announced that they were

28:05

looking for a red-haired man who

28:08

went by the nickname Jinch, who

28:10

was known to wear an army

28:12

battle dress with RAOC on the

28:15

shoulder. This stood for

28:17

Royal Army Ordinance Corps. Jinch,

28:20

who was believed to also go by

28:22

the name Frederick or Arthur Dutton, usually

28:25

slept rough in an old car on wasteland

28:27

near the No. 14 tram route. He

28:32

was often seen at cafes and

28:34

public houses near Paddington performing his

28:36

party trick of blowing smoke

28:38

rings. More

28:44

than 5,000 people had been interviewed

28:46

by the end of September when

28:49

it was announced that Liverpool CID

28:51

were being assisted by the Manchester

28:54

Police. The young

28:56

boys seen near the bakery had

28:58

been traced and eliminated from the

29:01

murder investigation. October

29:05

brought a breakthrough. It

29:07

was announced that there had finally been

29:09

an arrest. 22-year-old

29:12

Edward Francis Devlin, known

29:15

to friends and family as Teddy, was

29:18

taken into custody by DC Lynch

29:20

and DS Skinner from Liverpool and

29:23

Manchester CID as he entered a

29:25

milk-piercing bar on Stretford Road in

29:27

Manchester just after 8pm on October

29:30

10th. The

29:32

arrest was made following a

29:35

72-hour operation between the police

29:37

forces across a three-mile radius

29:39

in Manchester. According

29:42

to official sources, a prisoner

29:44

had provided information to Liverpool

29:46

CID about the murder. After

29:51

consulting with Manchester Police, the

29:53

investigators were told about two young men

29:55

who were said to have been in

29:57

Liverpool at the time of the crime.

30:00

was committed. Edward

30:07

Francis Devlin was one of six

30:09

children born and raised on Leinster

30:11

Street in Swinton Manchester by his

30:13

widowed mother Amy following the sudden

30:16

death of his father in 1943.

30:21

A Catholic school student, Devlin

30:23

never completed his education and

30:26

instead began committing petty fits

30:28

in his early teens. He

30:31

had many run-ins with the law

30:33

and three convictions for larceny by

30:35

the time he reached adulthood. At

30:39

the age of 20 he had

30:41

been sentenced to six months in

30:43

prison for stealing tomatoes. Between

30:47

his short stints in remand times Devlin

30:49

had served in the army for two

30:51

years between 1947

30:53

and 1949. He left

30:57

receiving an honourable discharge.

31:00

In early August Devlin had skipped

31:03

bail and was hiding out from

31:05

the local police until he was

31:07

located during a raid on a

31:10

house on Cornbrook Street with a

31:12

friend 21-year-old Alfred Burns. Burns

31:16

and Devlin had known each other

31:18

for years and had similar backgrounds,

31:21

each being raised in a large

31:23

family by a widowed mother in

31:25

post-war Manchester. Like

31:28

Devlin, Alfred Burns had a number

31:30

of minor convictions as a juvenile

31:32

and had been sent to a

31:34

borstal twice but while on leave in

31:36

July 1951 he had absconded. The

31:42

young men were taken in for questioning

31:45

concerning several offences committed in the area

31:47

while they were on the run and

31:49

Burns had claimed that they couldn't have

31:52

been responsible as they were in Liverpool

31:54

at the time. Devlin

31:56

had been released after a short stay

31:59

in strange weather. his prison, but

32:01

just a few days later he was

32:03

arrested. According

32:06

to the police, Devlin was immediately

32:08

told that he was being taken

32:11

into custody in connection with the

32:13

murder of Beatrice Alice Rimmer in

32:15

Liverpool on August 19th. He

32:19

allegedly replied, I don't

32:21

know anything about it, I

32:23

never heard of the murder. The

32:27

following day he appeared at

32:29

Liverpool Magistrates Court before Mr

32:31

Arthur Macfarlane and was charged

32:33

with murder. Wearing

32:36

a beige coloured shirt with an

32:38

open tartan collar and brown trousers,

32:41

Devlin pushed back his allburn hair

32:43

before telling the magistrates, if

32:46

I can have someone get to Manchester,

32:48

I can prove I was in Manchester at

32:50

the time. It

32:53

was remanded into custody pending a

32:55

committal hearing and later that

32:58

same day Alfred Burns was arrested

33:00

at Strangeways Prison where he was

33:02

being kept until he was due

33:04

to return to a ball stall.

33:08

Burns was brought before the magistrates the

33:10

next day and charged with the same

33:12

crime. His naturally

33:14

wavy fair hair was styled in

33:17

the typical 50s fashion and

33:19

he looked respectable wearing a matching

33:21

blue suit and shirt for the

33:23

hearing. Before

33:25

being remanded into custody he told

33:27

the court, all I can

33:30

say is I did not know there

33:32

had been a murder in Liverpool until

33:34

yesterday. One

33:38

week later on October 18th

33:40

both men again appeared at

33:42

Liverpool Magistrates alongside their counsel

33:44

as the matter had been

33:46

referred to the director of

33:48

public prosecutions. The

33:50

defendants would continue to be held

33:53

on remand. Joseph

33:55

Norton representing Burns told the

33:57

court, I cannot at this

33:59

stage object to the remand, but

34:02

in fairness to the accused, I

34:04

want to say he vehemently denies

34:06

any complicity in this charge. He

34:09

protests his innocence as he has

34:11

done from the very outset. The

34:18

Committal Hearing was opened by Mr.

34:20

J.R. Bishop on November 2nd. Outlining

34:24

the prosecution's case that the accused

34:26

had been in Liverpool on August

34:28

19th and had planned

34:30

to commit a robbery at the home

34:32

of Beatrice Alice Rimmer, Mr.

34:34

Bishop said that witnesses would

34:36

be referring to the victim

34:38

by a typically derogatory descriptor.

34:41

You will hear this woman described in

34:43

evidence by some witnesses as an old

34:45

woman. Bishop continued,

34:48

the pathologist describes her as an obese

34:50

female between 50 and 60 years

34:53

of age. You may think

34:56

that from the angle of 21

34:58

or 22 such a woman may

35:00

be described as an old woman.

35:04

The court heard that Devlin and Burns

35:06

had spoken to several people about planning

35:09

the robbery and that multiple witnesses had

35:11

seen them in Liverpool over the weekend

35:13

of August 17th to 19th. Barristers

35:18

for the defendants, Harry

35:20

Livermore for Devlin and Joseph

35:23

Norton for Burns, complained that

35:25

they felt the magistrate told

35:27

them and Gordon was being

35:29

unfair by upholding prosecution objections

35:31

during their cross-examination of the

35:33

witnesses. The

35:36

magistrate had told the witnesses not to

35:38

speak to anyone about the case, including

35:41

the defense, and refused

35:43

to have the record reflect his rulings

35:45

in which he did not allow barristers

35:47

for the defense to learn the witnesses'

35:50

addresses. The

35:53

defense contended that they would raise protest

35:55

elsewhere as it was within the law

35:57

for them to interview witnesses. Witness

36:01

identifications and statements were a

36:03

point of further contention when

36:05

the defence alleged that the

36:07

statements made by the accused

36:10

following their arrests were written

36:12

by Superintendent Bama and Inspector

36:14

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36:16

asked leading questions. Despite

36:20

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36:22

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36:24

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The trial began at St. George's Hall in

38:40

Liverpool on February 12, 1952, less than a

38:42

week after Queen

38:46

Elizabeth II ascended to the

38:48

throne. Proceedings

38:50

had been temporarily delayed when

38:53

the presiding judge, Mr. Justice

38:55

Finnimore, had left a

38:57

flu-like virus that left him bed bound.

39:01

Opening the case for the crown, Basil-nealed

39:04

QC described how Beatrice Alice

39:06

Rimmer's body had been discovered

39:08

by her only child on

39:10

August 20 of the previous

39:12

year. Referring

39:15

to her injuries including 15

39:17

wounds to her head alone,

39:20

he spoke about her broken finger and

39:22

the cut on her hand when

39:24

she had tried to ward off

39:26

the blows mercilessly rained upon her.

39:30

The prosecutor continued. It

39:32

was established that some of the wounds

39:34

had been inflicted as she lay on

39:37

the floor and she took three or

39:39

four hours to die. Basil-nealed

39:44

QC told the court that Edward

39:46

Devlin was alleged to have met

39:49

a man named George McLaughlin, a

39:51

19-year-old Liverpool native, at

39:54

Bell's All-Night Cafe in Paddington in

39:56

late July 1951. A

40:00

Glauklin, a career criminal from the

40:02

age of nine with over 40

40:05

convictions before his 20th birthday, had

40:07

been brought from prison to testify.

40:10

He said that he and Devlin were

40:12

having a conversation when he told Devlin

40:14

about his plans to rob his aunt's

40:16

home at 109 Cranbourne Road

40:20

while she was away on holiday.

40:23

Devlin allegedly replied that it was

40:25

funny because he had a job

40:27

planned for that road too. According

40:31

to McLauklin, he said

40:33

he was comfortable disclosing his plans

40:35

to a stranger because most people

40:37

in all night cafes were crooks.

40:40

Devlin disclosed that an old woman

40:42

was living alone in number seven.

40:45

She seldom received visitors. Devlin

40:49

claimed the woman kept a lot of

40:51

dough in the house and

40:53

that he would put her on a

40:55

bed and see to her if she

40:58

started messing about. McLauklin

41:01

testified that he and Devlin went

41:03

to Cranbourne Road the following morning

41:06

despite giving evidence at an earlier hearing

41:08

that they had gone at night when

41:10

it was dark. He

41:12

claimed to have given Devlin a leg

41:14

over the wall so they could case

41:17

the job and he saw a privet

41:19

bush in the garden. They

41:21

arranged to carry out the break in

41:24

later. According

41:26

to the prosecution, Edward

41:28

Devlin had met a

41:30

22-year-old former show girl

41:32

named June Berry in

41:34

Manchester during Whitsuntide in

41:36

May 1951. June,

41:39

a Manchester native, told

41:41

the court that she and Devlin spent

41:43

a week together before she moved to

41:46

Liverpool. After the

41:48

move, June started a relationship with

41:50

a man named Stanley Rubin and

41:52

he would often stay with her at a

41:55

lodging house on Caneing Street at

41:58

the beginning of August. She

42:00

was surprised to see Devlin outside

42:02

her home and happily agreed

42:04

to go with him to a pub

42:06

near the market called The Dive. June

42:10

claimed that it was in The

42:12

Dive that she was introduced to

42:15

Alfred Burns and after closing time

42:17

they made their way to several

42:19

all-night cafes before ending up in

42:22

the Continental Cafe at around 4.30am.

42:25

According to June, Devlin and Burns

42:28

met George McLaughlin and had a

42:30

conversation about an old woman's house

42:32

with a back entry that could

42:34

be reached by climbing over a

42:37

wall. McLaughlin

42:39

told the court, We

42:42

were going to get one of the girls round

42:44

the front to keep the old woman chatting. While

42:47

she was at the front talking we were

42:49

going to get round the back. I

42:51

was going to give Devlin and Burns a leg

42:53

over the wall and they were going

42:55

to force the catch over the window, get

42:58

through the window and open the door

43:00

for the other one to get through

43:02

and charge to the front of the

43:04

house and grab hold of the old

43:06

woman. McLaughlin

43:08

said that they arranged to carry

43:11

out the break in on August

43:13

17th after meeting at the Golden

43:15

Dragon Cafe but he couldn't

43:17

do it because he had been arrested

43:19

for robbing his aunt's home and had

43:21

been in prison since. The

43:25

night after she met George McLaughlin, August

43:27

3rd, June Berry accompanied Edward Devlin and

43:31

Alfred Burns to the Rainbow Cafe

43:33

where June introduced the men to

43:36

17-year-old Marie Mill. In

43:41

the early hours of the morning, the

43:43

group went to Canning Street so June could pack a

43:45

bag to stay with

43:47

Devlin. However, when she and

43:49

Marie entered her room in the lodging house she

43:51

found a on and off boyfriend

43:54

Stanley Rubin asleep in her

43:56

bed. June

43:58

grabbed a suitcase and told Ruben

44:00

she was leaving but he followed

44:02

her and Marie outside to the

44:04

corner of Catherine Street where

44:07

he realized she was with two men

44:09

he hadn't seen before. Ruben

44:12

told June to decide whether she was going

44:14

to stay with him or leave with one

44:16

of the men. Stanley

44:19

Ruben later testified that June

44:21

told him she was choosing

44:23

Teddy, referring to Edward

44:25

Devlin by his nickname. Devlin,

44:29

Burns, June and Marie then went

44:31

to Central Station to store June's

44:33

suitcase while they looked for somewhere

44:36

to stay. Burns was

44:38

able to get a room for himself

44:40

and Marie at a boarding house on

44:42

Verillam Close and Devlin and

44:44

June stayed at a nearby hotel

44:47

called Mount Pleasant. The

44:50

following day when Burns and Devlin wanted

44:52

to go home to get a change

44:54

of close, they all took

44:56

the train from Liverpool to Manchester.

45:00

According to June and Marie the men

45:02

discussed their plans to break into an

45:04

old woman's house and asked each of

45:06

them to keep watch while they went

45:08

inside. June said

45:10

she saw Devlin brandishing a

45:12

glass cutter similar to one

45:15

found at his mother's house

45:17

after Devlin's arrest. Both

45:20

women denied that they had agreed to

45:22

help and Marie claimed they

45:24

returned to Liverpool later that night.

45:27

She had arranged to meet with

45:30

Burns and Devlin at the Rialto

45:32

cinema on August 17th at 4.30pm.

45:36

June claimed to have seen the pair

45:38

twice before then, once on

45:40

the 8th or 9th of August when

45:42

Burns and Devlin came to the boarding

45:44

house on Verillam Close by

45:46

which point she said that Marie had left.

45:50

June told them that she was due in

45:52

court at 10am that morning and she didn't

45:54

want to go so she asked if she

45:57

could go back to Manchester with them. made

46:00

with her mother who lived there. According

46:03

to June she saw them again on

46:05

August 16th when

46:07

they told her they had to

46:09

go to Liverpool for important business.

46:16

17-year-old Marie Milne

46:18

was one of over a dozen

46:21

children in an Indonesian English household.

46:24

She told the court that on the evening

46:26

she met Alfred Burns and Edward Devlin. It

46:29

was the first time she had stayed out all

46:32

night and it was the night

46:34

she lost her virginity. Marie

46:37

claimed that Burns had introduced himself

46:39

as Freddy Rimmer and she

46:41

only discovered his actual name a few

46:43

days later when June told her. After

46:47

that she said she didn't want to see

46:49

him again and that was why she left

46:52

the boarding house. However

46:54

Marie said it was a coincidence

46:57

that she bumped into Burns and

46:59

Devlin again on August 17th at

47:01

the Rialto Cinema. She

47:03

then agreed to go for something to eat

47:05

with them at the Golden Dragon Cafe. There

47:09

she alleged that Devlin who had ordered

47:12

sausages and chips complained about

47:14

the quality of the knives and

47:17

took out his own red-handled spring

47:19

blade to cut his dinner. Prosecutor

47:22

Basil Neild QC told the

47:25

court. After the

47:27

meal Marie and the prisoners discussed the

47:29

job to be done at Seven Cranbourne

47:31

Road. Burns asked Marie

47:33

if she had been on a job before and

47:36

she said no. Marie

47:39

Milne had testified at an earlier

47:41

hearing that Devlin then threatened her

47:43

with the knife as they walked

47:46

to Central Station but at

47:48

the trial she said he had threatened

47:50

her in the Golden Dragon Cafe. When

47:53

confronted with this inconsistency

47:56

she said that it had happened twice. According

48:00

to the witness she eventually agreed to

48:02

go with Burns and Devlin and

48:05

they explained what her role would be. Testifying

48:08

about what she was told to do

48:10

and Devlin's orders, Marie

48:12

stated, They said

48:15

that all I had to do was knock

48:17

on the door and say my mother sent

48:19

me, then I was to keep the

48:21

woman talking while he got in the back way.

48:24

He said it would be on the following night

48:26

and that with it being a Sunday, the

48:29

woman might be out. He

48:31

said I was to try and get invited into

48:33

the house and if I got

48:35

into the house, I had to

48:37

follow her and be behind the door so

48:39

that I would be between her and the

48:41

door. He described the

48:43

inside of the house and

48:45

said there were two mirrors in the kitchen

48:48

and one on top of the sideboard. He

48:51

said that Mrs. Rimmer always sat in

48:53

the big chair by the fire. Another

48:58

witness named Kenneth McNeil claimed

49:01

he saw Devlin, Burns and

49:03

Marie in a public house

49:05

later that night. Marie

49:08

confirmed that she recognized McNeil,

49:11

who was known to wear a navy blouse.

49:14

Marie said that the three of them went

49:16

to the dive the following day, where

49:19

they were seen by June's

49:21

ex-boyfriend Stanley Rubin, who testified

49:23

that he exchanged words with

49:25

Devlin about June. On

49:29

Sunday, August 19th, Marie

49:31

said that she met Burns and Devlin

49:34

at the Rialto at around 2.30pm and

49:37

they got a taxi to a

49:39

blitz site near the hospital on

49:41

Smith Down Road. She

49:44

specifically remembered that Burns had given

49:46

the driver two pounds and six

49:48

shillings to cover the two pound

49:51

fare. The

49:53

taxi driver James Emery recalled

49:55

Marie but did not recognize

49:57

the defendants. admitted

50:00

that he was only sure that he

50:02

had driven her to Smithdown Road on

50:04

the 19th as that was

50:06

the date police had questioned him about.

50:10

After going through the plan with Marie

50:12

once more, Burns and Devlin

50:14

gave her some money and told her to

50:16

go and watch a motion picture and

50:19

to meet them back at the blitz site on

50:21

Smithdown Road at 6 p.m.

50:25

Marie claimed that she was too afraid to

50:27

go against the pair's orders even

50:29

though she admitted they did not know where

50:31

she lived and waited on Smithdown

50:34

Road from 6 p.m. until 7 30 p.m.

50:36

but Burns and Devlin

50:39

didn't show up. She

50:42

went back to the Rialto where Burns

50:45

and Devlin happened to be and

50:47

asked them why they didn't turn up. They

50:50

told her they didn't need her on the job

50:53

anymore but when she complained that she

50:55

could have stayed to watch the end of the

50:57

movie they said she could

50:59

come with them. At

51:01

around 9 p.m. they returned to

51:03

the top of Cranbourne Road. Marie's

51:07

testimony continued. Burns

51:09

told me to wait on the corner of

51:11

Cranbourne Road for five minutes so they could

51:14

get in a back way. I

51:16

was told to go to the

51:18

house four houses past the entry

51:20

number seven. The last

51:23

I saw of them at that time was

51:25

when they turned up at Webster Road. I

51:28

waited on the corner until 10 30

51:31

p.m. I did not go

51:33

back to the house. Marie

51:37

said she got the bus back to

51:39

the Rialto and saw Burns and Devlin

51:41

across the road. She

51:44

asked them if they had done the job and

51:46

they said no but as they

51:49

walked along Upper Parliament Street

51:51

she noticed a stained handkerchief

51:53

wrapped around Devlin's hand and

51:55

wet stains on his suit.

51:58

Marie claimed she had a heard him whisper, will

52:01

the woman live? According

52:04

to Marie Burns replied, no,

52:07

to hell with the woman, we will

52:09

be out of Liverpool before long, we

52:12

will take the little Marie the bitch

52:14

with us. Continuing

52:18

her evidence, Marie explained she heard

52:20

Devlin complain about mud on his

52:23

shoes and losing his knife after

52:25

going through the park. When

52:28

she asked him about the stains on his

52:30

suit, he told her to

52:32

mind her own fucking business and

52:35

said it was beer. The

52:43

jury heard that Burns had been

52:45

wearing a brown pinstripe suit and

52:47

Devlin had been wearing a fawn-coloured

52:50

gabbardine suit, both of which had

52:52

been submitted to the forensic lab

52:54

for analysis. Dr

52:57

Firth, the director of the

52:59

Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory,

53:01

testified that he examined both

53:03

suits and shoes belonging to

53:05

the defendants. The

53:08

expert witness said there were visible

53:11

blood stains on Devlin's jacket, small

53:14

stains on the front left under the

53:16

lapel and some on the left

53:18

sleeve. Dr

53:20

Firth believed it was human blood

53:22

but there was not enough to

53:25

sample it for grouping. The

53:27

clothing appeared to have been washed.

53:31

Testimony from a manager at a Manchester

53:33

Dry Cleaner's alleged that a fawn suit

53:36

with a receipt made out to someone

53:38

named Devlin had been handed in on

53:40

August 23rd and that the

53:43

jacket appeared to be cleaner than

53:45

the trousers. Blood

53:48

stains were noted on Burns'

53:50

pinstripe suit trousers but the

53:52

stains, big enough to analyse,

53:54

came back as being Group

53:56

B Burns' blood type. Beatrice

54:00

Alice Rimmer. A

54:06

court was informed that prosecution

54:08

witness George McLaughlin was interviewed

54:10

in prison on September 20th.

54:13

Eventually provided information that led

54:16

detectives to June Bury. June

54:19

was questioned on October 4th

54:21

and Marie Milne was questioned

54:23

three days later. Their

54:27

initial statements were vastly different from

54:29

the evidence they gave in court.

54:32

However, officers involved in the

54:34

investigation denied making any suggestions

54:36

to them during the interviews.

54:40

Detective Leslie Skinner testified

54:42

about Edward Devlin's arrest,

54:45

telling the court that Devlin had

54:47

been immediately informed of why he

54:49

was being taken into custody. As

54:52

they transported him back to Liverpool in

54:54

the back of a police vehicle, Devlin

54:57

suddenly asked, Have you

54:59

seen the girls? June and

55:01

the Chinese bit. What did

55:04

they say? The

55:07

prosecutor told the jury having seen

55:09

Marie Milne who was half Indonesian,

55:12

they would know that was an apparent reference

55:14

to her. A

55:18

statement alleged to have been dictated by Devlin

55:20

to Inspector Lee's at Halliton Police Station was

55:22

then read to the court. Devlin had said

55:25

that he and Alfred Burns had

55:27

not been in Liverpool since

55:30

the 8th or 9th of August and the last time he

55:32

saw Marie was on the 5th or 6th of August when

55:37

they dropped her at the station in Manchester. Burns's

55:39

statement the following day can contain

55:45

the same information that

55:47

they had not been to Liverpool since the 8th or 9th

55:49

of August and

55:52

they could prove they had been in Manchester. Witness

55:58

George McLaughlin had been brought

56:00

to an identification parade in

56:02

mid-October 1951. He

56:06

positively identified Burns and Devlin

56:08

as the men he had

56:10

spoken with when discussing breaking

56:12

into Beatrice Alice Rimas High.

56:15

Stanley Rubin's June Berry's ex-lover

56:18

had positively identified Devlin as

56:20

the man he saw June

56:22

leaving with. Kenneth

56:25

McNeil, the witness who was said

56:27

to have seen the defendants in

56:29

Liverpool numerous times between the 16th

56:31

and 20th of August, failed to

56:33

identify either of them on the

56:36

stand. He

56:38

claimed he had been so nervous that

56:40

he deliberately picked out two random men

56:42

in the lineup. Beware

56:46

the majority of the prosecution

56:48

witnesses were unsavory characters. Prosecutor

56:51

Basil Neal QC told the

56:53

jury, you may

56:55

think Marie Milne was a willing

56:58

participant. You may also think

57:00

that George McLaughlin might have been ready

57:02

to be one of those who did

57:04

this act had he not been arrested

57:06

before it took place. You

57:08

may also wonder whether June Berry

57:10

herself was not in some measure

57:13

implicated. Therefore it is

57:15

proper to say that if any or

57:17

all of those witnesses in your view

57:19

were willing participants then it

57:22

is dangerous to act upon the

57:24

evidence of accomplices unless it is

57:26

corroborated by some outside evidence. That

57:32

said the prosecutor told jurors

57:34

they could believe the witnesses

57:36

without any corroboration at all.

57:40

After four months of heavy media

57:43

coverage featuring one side of the

57:45

case the accused were

57:47

finally able to give their account.

57:53

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